Access Video On Demand provides countless ideas for engaging community programming, including titles to help prepare patrons for the midterm elections as well as videos that cover the pivotal election of one of America’s greatest leaders, Veterans Day, and the importance of kindness and empathy. Subscribers can also explore the complete calendar (accessible via the menu in the header) for the year’s milestones, holidays, and events—a great source for programming ideas throughout the year.
Issues Surrounding the Midterm Elections, November 6, 2018
Consider these titles for programming/patron interest:
- Divided States of America series (Item #151232)
- TEDTalks: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks—How We Can Face the Future Without Fear, Together (Item #160644)
- TEDTalks: Laura Galante—How (And Why) Russia Hacked the U.S. Election (Item #160766)
- To Russian-American Community, Russia Has Become Political Scapegoat (Item #154786)
- Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? (Item #118737)
- Moyers & Company: Suppressing the Vote (Item #50629)
- The Hellfire Nation (Item #154336)
- Western Democracy Is Threatening Suicide: A Debate (Item #145751)
- America by the Numbers—The New Deciders (Item #151341)
Abraham Lincoln Is Elected 16th U.S. President, November 6, 1860
Consider these titles for programming/patron interest:
- Who Was Abraham Lincoln? (Item #9181)
- Abraham Lincoln: Preserving the Union (Item #42461)
- Lincoln (Item #43087)
- How Abraham Lincoln Shaped American Politics and Popular Culture (Item #142817)
- Bill Moyers Journal: Abraham Lincoln Revealed (Item #40407)
- Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided series (Item #151400)
Veterans’ Day, November 11, 2018
Consider these titles for programming/patron interest:
- Veterans Day (Item #43119)
- Debt of Honor: Disabled Veterans in American History (Item #151207)
- The Forgotten War: Korean War Veterans Remember (Item #32702)
- Pulling Rank: The Future of U.S. Military and the Concerns of Veterans—Dan Rather Reports (Item #114531)
- My Vietnam Your Iraq (Item #131263)
- Atomic Vets (Item #142523)
World Kindness Day, November 13, 2018
Consider these titles for programming/patron interest:
- Love, Hate, and Everything in Between: A Film on Empathy (Item #50435)
- Leading with Kindness: Case Studies in Compassionate Management (Item #44864)
- The Kindness of Strangers: Altruism and Human Nature (Item #41358)
- TEDTalks: Jonathan Zittrain—The Web as Random Acts of Kindness (Item #48456)
- TEDTalks: Sam Richards—A Radical Experiment in Empathy (Item #48629)
- TEDTalks: Joan Halifax—Compassion and the True Meaning of Empathy (Item #48215)
- The Power of Empathy (Item #49911)
