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Lauris Olson

Librarian & Coordinator of Social Sciences Collections

Lauris Olson

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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 37

A quick note on finding historical statistics on African colonies

Oct 21, 2019 268

African Studies

Sep 11, 2019 3524

ArcGIS: An Introduction

Oct 31, 2019 30

Asian Americans : Sociology

Sep 16, 2019 20

BENF 227: Global Health Justice and Governance

Dec 10, 2018 223

Blue Books for Colonial British Africa in the Penn Libraries

Jun 10, 2016 79

Botswana - General Information

Oct 9, 2018 76

China in Africa : Penn Libraries resources

Dec 10, 2018 849

Christian Missions in Africa

Apr 23, 2018 3

City Directories of the United States - Microform Collection

Jul 26, 2018 440

Community Health Data Base - Penn Libraries data resources

Dec 10, 2018 23

Conflict and Terrorism - Research Guide

Nov 12, 2019 162

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

Nov 12, 2019 1061

Criminology - Research Guide

Sep 5, 2018 1424

Criminology Data and Statistics

Jun 20, 2018 17

Critical Writing Program: Legal Rights for Nature

Sep 11, 2019 2361

Oct 1, 2018 873

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

Sep 15, 2019 139

Disability Studies

Sep 1, 2018 246

DOTS and ITERATE - Terrorism incidents and terrorist biographies data

May 8, 2019 2400

Elections Data - Research Guide

Jul 16, 2019 109

Esri Data & Maps

Oct 22, 2019 825

Aug 8, 2019 1153

Extracting Data from the General Social Survey (SOCI 120)

Apr 23, 2018 306

Federal Population Schedules - Microfilm Collection

May 17, 2019 1601

Gallup public opinion poll resources

Sep 11, 2019 1131

Jul 16, 2018 0

Georeferencing Historic Maps

Apr 23, 2018 20

Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature - Microform Collection

Jul 16, 2018 0

Health and Society in Africa

Jun 13, 2016 315

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

Sep 6, 2017 4436

Historical Maps

Jul 16, 2018 40

HSOC 10: Health and Societies - Africa

Oct 22, 2019 246

HSOC 59: Medical Missionaries and Partners

Sep 7, 2018 118

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

May 14, 2019 517

ICRG Historical Datasets (International Country Risk Guide)

May 14, 2019 2183

ICRG Researcher's Datasets (International Country Risk Guide)

Jul 16, 2018 120

Intensity Maps with Fusion Tables

Dec 1, 2018 14614

International GIS Data

Jun 13, 2016 34

Introduction to ArcGIS: Map Design

Nov 12, 2019 194

LandScan Global

Jul 26, 2019 71

LAPOP

Oct 9, 2019 95

Sep 11, 2018 20

LPS: Economic Development

Sep 13, 2017 83

Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences

Apr 27, 2018 92

Medieval Manuscripts Microform Collection @ Penn Libraries

Jul 25, 2019 33

Mobile Coverage Explorer : GIS data

Jul 16, 2018 1611

Online Mapping Tools

Apr 1, 2019 152

Penn Dissertations on Africa

Jul 2, 2019 2598

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

Apr 25, 2018 18

People on War datasets, documentation

Dec 11, 2018 1283

Philadelphia History

Dec 11, 2018 2220

Philadelphia Maps and Geographic Information

Dec 11, 2018 2984

Philadelphia Neighborhood Research: URBS 210/ URBS 206

Sep 5, 2018 1752

Philadelphia Statistics

Dec 11, 2018 2630

Philadelphia Studies

Dec 10, 2018 252

Preparing Literature Reviews in the Social Sciences

Jul 16, 2018 9

PSCI 136: Urban Politics

Jan 29, 2018 584

PSYC 001 - Introduction to Experimental Psychology

Dec 10, 2018 112

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

Dec 10, 2018 36

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

Oct 23, 2019 197

Public Opinion Polls

Jul 16, 2018 1559

Dec 10, 2018 236

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Philadelphia - Microform Collection

Aug 2, 2018 7

SOCI 004: The Family

Sep 11, 2018 64

SOCI 006 - Race & Ethnic Relations

Nov 5, 2019 283

SOCI 007: Population and Society

Jan 29, 2018 229

SOCI 010: Social Stratification

Feb 17, 2018 30

SOCI 041: Poverty and Inequality

Sep 11, 2018 62

SOCI 103 - Asian Americans in Contemporary Society

Oct 17, 2018 70

SOCI 111 / HSOC 111: Health of Populations Course Guide

Feb 7, 2019 569

Social Network Analysis

Oct 31, 2019 84

Sociology of Education

Jun 20, 2019 895

Sociology Research Guide

Dec 10, 2018 282

South Asia foreign relations

Nov 5, 2019 5575

Statistical Software

Sep 6, 2017 3

SWRK 601 Library Session

Jul 16, 2018 112

SWRK 730: Community Mapping

Jul 16, 2018 2301

U.S. Census Demographic Data

Jul 16, 2018 0

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

Oct 21, 2019 1047

Urban Studies - Research Guide

Dec 11, 2018 87

URBS 103: Industrial Metropolis Course Guide

Feb 4, 2019 77

URBS 210: The Wire and the City

Sep 6, 2017 54

Jul 16, 2018 97

URBS 400: Senior Seminar

Oct 10, 2018 36

URBS 420: Perspectives on Urban Poverty

Sep 12, 2019 25

URBS 428: Research Seminar in 21st Century Urbanism

Sep 7, 2018 9

WER ZIP Code Changes Report dataset

Apr 23, 2018 7

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