Lauris Olson

Librarian & Coordinator, Social Sciences Collections

As the Penn Libraries' social sciences bibliographer since 1998, Lauris is responsible for selecting books, journals, electronic resources, and other media supporting Penn research and instruction in sociology, political science, economics, linguistics, psychology, and related fields. Lauris coordinates collection development and management activities of subject librarians for anthropology, business, criminology, education, and social policy and practice. Lauris is also the Penn Libraries' African studies bibliographer. Lauris started at the Penn Libraries in 1991 as a Van Pelt reference librarian, but Lauris's presence at Penn began in 1975 as an undergraduate, earning BA and MA degrees in Anthropology here, alongside a Drexel library degree.

Office	203 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
Contact	olson@pobox.upenn.edu \| 215-898-0119
Areas of Specialization	Numismatics \| Philadelphia Studies and Urban Studies \| International, Foreign, U.S., State, Local Government Documents \| Social Sciences Data
Collection Responsibilities	African Studies \| Communication \| Economics \| Law \| Linguistics \| Political Science \| Psychology \| Sociology \| Women's Studies \| General Social Sciences
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