Lauris Olson
Librarian & Coordinator, Social Sciences Collections
As the Penn Libraries' social sciences bibliographer - now coordinator for social sciences collections - since 1998, Lauris is responsible for selecting books, journals, electronic resources, and other media supporting Penn research and instruction in sociology, economics, linguistics, criminology, communication, and related fields. Lauris is Penn's Official Representative to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research and the contact person for the Penn Libraries' Pennsylvania State Data Center affiliate membership. Lauris coordinates collection development and management activities of subject librarians for anthropology & archaeology, business, education, gender, women's studies & sexuality, political science & international relations, psychology, and social policy & practice/social work. Lauris is also the Penn Libraries' African studies bibliographer. Lauris started at the Penn Libraries in 1991 as a Van Pelt Library 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.
Read all about it! Baby pandas, the Capital Weather Gang ... and, oh yes, the 2020 Presidential General Election. The Penn Libraries announces a new campus-wide subscription to The Washington Post website.
This new subscription, live right now, uses Penn campus IP ranges and PennKey authentication to deliver real-time updates from The Washington Post website without paywalls! All you need is your PennKey, although the Lean Library browser plug-in can make it easier on you.
Our subscription provides searchable fulltext content from 2005 to the present, including photo galleries of the annual Drool at the Pool (also known as Doggie Swim Day).
No need to create a personal WaPo website registration. No need for an individual subscription — unless you want to pay for personal subscriptions to the digital replica version of recent WaPo issues or the WaPo mobile app. Those things are not included in the Penn Libraries campuswide subscription.
Note : We are still ironing out wrinkles in our subscription. Please be patient as access and usability improve.
Read all about it! Baby pandas, the Capital Weather Gang ... and, oh yes, the 2020 Presidential General Election. The Penn Libraries announces a new campus-wide subscription to The Washington Post website. This new subscription, live right now, uses Penn campus IP ranges and PennKey authentication