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Lauris Olson

Librarian & Coordinator of Social Sciences Collections

Lauris Olson

Contact:

University of Pennsylvania Libraries
203 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
University of Pennsylvania
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
U.S.A.

215-898-0119

Africa. General Social Sciences. Communication, Criminology, Economics, Law (social & political aspects), Linguistics, Political Science, Sociology, Urban Studies. Government documents. Numeric & spatial data.

My Guides

Jul 16, 2018 0

20th Century African History and Politics - Research Guide

Oct 9, 2019 18

A quick note on finding historical statistics on African colonies

Dec 10, 2019 103

African Studies

Apr 30, 2020 837

ALC : Africana Librarians Council

Sep 11, 2019 1773

ArcGIS: An Introduction

Oct 31, 2019 22

Asian Americans : Sociology

Sep 16, 2019 24

BENF 227: Global Health Justice and Governance

Dec 10, 2018 160

Blue Books for Colonial British Africa in the Penn Libraries

Jun 10, 2016 35

Botswana - General Information

Apr 18, 2020 51

China in Africa : Penn Libraries resources

Dec 10, 2018 569

Christian Missions in Africa

Apr 23, 2018 5

City Directories of the United States - Microform Collection

Mar 4, 2020 218

Community Health Data Base - Penn Libraries data resources

Dec 10, 2018 14

Conflict and Terrorism - Research Guide

Feb 3, 2020 23

CRIM 410: Senior Research Seminar: Experiments in Crime and Justice

Jan 30, 2020 495

Criminology - Research Guide

Sep 5, 2018 543

Criminology Data and Statistics

Jun 20, 2018 7

Critical Writing Program: Legal Rights for Nature

Feb 14, 2020 1148

Oct 1, 2018 415

Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - data files - Penn Libraries data resources

Dec 11, 2019 45

Disability Studies

Sep 1, 2018 99

DOTS and ITERATE - Terrorism incidents and terrorist biographies data

May 8, 2019 909

Elections Data - Research Guide

Jul 16, 2019 40

Esri Data & Maps

Feb 25, 2020 477

Aug 8, 2019 639

Extracting Data from the General Social Survey (SOCI 120)

Apr 23, 2018 66

Federal Population Schedules - Microfilm Collection

Mar 10, 2020 789

Gallup public opinion poll resources

Sep 11, 2019 505

Jul 16, 2018 0

Georeferencing Historic Maps

Apr 23, 2018 25

Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature - Microform Collection

Jul 16, 2018 0

Health and Society in Africa

Jun 13, 2016 163

HIST 187: The Making of Modern South Africa - Finding Primary Sources

Sep 6, 2017 3342

Historical Maps

Jan 20, 2020 22

HSOC 10: Health and Societies - Africa

Oct 22, 2019 31

HSOC 59: Medical Missionaries and Partners

Jan 6, 2020 99

ICMA Survey Research Datasets - data files - Penn Libraries data resources

May 14, 2019 244

ICRG Historical Datasets (International Country Risk Guide)

May 14, 2019 1416

ICRG Researcher's Datasets (International Country Risk Guide)

Jul 16, 2018 34

Intensity Maps with Fusion Tables

Jan 3, 2020 8210

International GIS Data

Jun 13, 2016 20

Introduction to ArcGIS: Map Design

Nov 12, 2019 88

LandScan Global

Jul 26, 2019 98

LAPOP

Oct 9, 2019 46

Jan 20, 2020 21

LPS: Economic Development

Feb 24, 2020 52

Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences

Apr 27, 2018 148

Medieval Manuscripts Microform Collection @ Penn Libraries

Jul 25, 2019 229

Mobile Coverage Explorer : GIS data

Mar 5, 2020 913

Online Mapping Tools

Apr 1, 2019 106

Penn Dissertations on Africa

Jul 2, 2019 132

Penn Reading Project 2019-2020 : Weapons of Math Destruction / Cathy O'Neil

Apr 25, 2018 29

People on War datasets, documentation

Dec 11, 2018 811

Philadelphia History

Dec 11, 2018 1356

Philadelphia Maps and Geographic Information

Dec 11, 2018 1740

Philadelphia Neighborhood Research: URBS 210/ URBS 206

Jan 20, 2020 523

Philadelphia Statistics

Jan 20, 2020 1651

Philadelphia Studies

Dec 10, 2018 133

Preparing Literature Reviews in the Social Sciences

Jul 16, 2018 6

PSCI 136: Urban Politics

Jan 29, 2018 196

PSYC 001 - Introduction to Experimental Psychology

Dec 10, 2018 109

PSYC 470-302: Friendship & Attraction (Fall 2015)

Dec 10, 2018 14

PSYC 480-301: Modern Young Adulthood (Fall 2016)

Oct 23, 2019 82

Public Opinion Polls

Jul 16, 2018 767

Feb 10, 2020 190

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Philadelphia - Microform Collection

Aug 2, 2018 8

SOCI 004: The Family

Sep 11, 2018 33

SOCI 006 - Race & Ethnic Relations

Nov 5, 2019 37

SOCI 007: Population and Society

Jan 29, 2018 126

SOCI 010: Social Stratification

Feb 17, 2018 21

SOCI 041: Poverty and Inequality

Sep 11, 2018 16

SOCI 103 - Asian Americans in Contemporary Society

Dec 8, 2019 59

SOCI 111 / HSOC 111: Health of Populations Course Guide

Feb 7, 2019 431

Social Network Analysis

Oct 31, 2019 26

Sociology of Education

Jan 30, 2020 402

Sociology Research Guide

Dec 13, 2019 455

South Asia foreign relations

May 5, 2020 2170

Statistical Software

Sep 6, 2017 11

SWRK 601 Library Session

Jul 16, 2018 31

SWRK 730: Community Mapping

Jul 16, 2018 917

U.S. Census Demographic Data

Jul 16, 2018 0

U.S.Elections: Historical and Contemporary - Research Guide

Feb 25, 2020 550

Urban Studies - Research Guide

Dec 11, 2018 153

URBS 103: Industrial Metropolis Course Guide

Jan 10, 2020 66

URBS 210: The Wire and the City

Feb 21, 2020 61

Feb 3, 2020 59

URBS 400: Senior Seminar

Oct 10, 2018 17

URBS 420: Perspectives on Urban Poverty

Feb 25, 2020 37

URBS 428: Research Seminar in 21st Century Urbanism

Sep 7, 2018 9

WER ZIP Code Changes Report dataset

Apr 23, 2018 11

Witchcraft in Europe and America - Microform Collection

My Subject Specialties

African Studies Aging Studies Communication Criminology Data & GIS Economics Food Studies Health & Societies International Relations Law Linguistics Philadelphia Studies Political Science Population Studies & Demography Public Policy & Administration Social Sciences Sociology Urban Studies