AVON Editor’s Picks for January 2022

Changing Work, Changing Workers Streaming Video from AVON

GRCC licenses thousands of streaming videos through Academic Video Online (AVON) from ProQuest / Alexander Street Press, and titles are regularly added to keep the database fresh. Editor’s Picks for January 2022 are available now! They include:

• The First Wave
• The Future of Work: Changing Work, Changing Workers
• Voices from the Barrens, Native People, Blueberries and Sovereignty
• The Big Scary S Word
• Latino Wisconsin
• California Forever: The History of California State Parks

Logon with your last name and 7-digit Raider number. For more media options, see the Multimedia & Image Resources Subject Guide.

New in Academic Video Online

GRCC licenses Academic Video Online, the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. Academic Video Online provides over 70,000 closed captioned titles spanning subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. 3500+ titles are added each year.

Take a look at some of the most recent additions.

Logon to Academic Video Online with your last name and 7-digit Raider number. For more video options, see the Multimedia & Image Subject Guide.

Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops

GRCC’s Academic Video Online / VAST database is regularly supplemented by new video, and this one will inform us all as society deals with the rise in mental health social problems and how police handle them with crisis intervention training.

Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops addresses how police officers address the mental health-related issues they encounter daily. This HBO Documentary film “follows two police officers with the San Antonio Texas Police Department who are diverting people away from jail and into mental health treatment, one 911 call at a time.” Logon with your last name and 7-digit Raider number. For more resources, check out the Criminal Justice Subject Guide.

Mental Health Police Officer trainer

Poet Amanda Gorman On How She Prepared For Inauguration Day

Since April is National Poetry Month, a recent addition to GRCC’s Academic Video Online / VAST database is especially timely. 23-year old Poet Amanda Gorman, who read her work, The Hill We Climb, at the Biden Presidential Inauguration and wowed listeners worldwide with both her poem and her poise, is featured in a short video Poet Amanda Gorman On How She Prepared For Inauguration Day. Logon with your last name and 7-digit Raider number.

Amanda Gorman on PBS NewsHour

Picture a Scientist

GRCC licenses the award-winning Picture a Scientist now available to watch through GRCC’s Academic Video Online database. The film chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. In the film, biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from harassment to years of subtle slights. Along the way, from cramped laboratories to spectacular field stations, we encounter scientific luminaries – including social scientists, neuroscientists and psychologists – who provide new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse, equitable and open to all.    A K-12 version is also available.   Logon with your last name and 7-digit Raider number.

Picture a Scientist Movie Poster