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Title: Alan Dean Foster, Kevin Robinson & Michael Seidman: Getting Published.
Abstract/Description: Three successful authors elaborate on their experiences getting their writing published and give their advice to aspiring authors. The authors agree that publication is a long and difficult process full of rejection and frustration. However, taking advice from editors and other authors to improve the story and persevering until the story is accepted will help aspiring authors succeed.
Date Issued: 1994
Identifier: FosterRobinsonSeidman, fscj:13513
Format: Video file

Title: Alan Dean Foster: Writing Science Fiction and Screenplays.
Abstract/Description: Author Alan Dean Foster explains what led him to become a science fiction writer. He discusses his perspective on the genre of science fiction writing, including his experience as a screen writer and writing books based on television shows and movies.
Date Issued: 1994
Identifier: AlanDeanFoster
Format: Video file

Title: Alan Kay.
Abstract/Description: Alan Kay, President of the Americans Talk Issues Foundation, discusses the importance of polling as a way to measure individual wants and needs in terms of public policy.
Date Issued: 1992
Identifier: AlanKay
Format: Video file

Title: Alice Walker.
Abstract/Description: Fresh off winning a Pulitzer Prize, novelist and poet Alice Walker discusses The Color Purple and her most recent novel, In Search of Our Mothers Gardens, as well as Zora Neale Hurston. NOTE: This file is audio only.
Date Issued: 1983
Identifier: Worth_Quoting_Alice_Walker_audioonly
Format: Audio file

Title: Andrew Cockburn.
Abstract/Description: Military Affairs specialist Cockburn discusses SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) or Star Wars, as it was sometimes called. Cockburn argues against SDI, arguing that it's too expensive, will lead to greater nuclear proliferation, only protects against one type of nuclear missile, and, finally, will threaten other nations with its inherent offensive capability.
Date Issued: 1987
Identifier: AndrewCockburn
Format: Video file

Title: Arthur Himmelman.
Abstract/Description: Arthur Himmelman, a consultant who is an expert on collaboration, defines what collaboration is and how he encourages communities and institutions to collaborate.
Date Issued: 1997
Identifier: ArthurHimmelman
Format: Video file

Title: Arthur Rosenfeld: Writing From Experience and Disorder.
Abstract/Description: Novelist Arthur Rosenfeld, host of the hit (60 million households) national public television show "Longevity Tai Chi with Arthur Rosenfeld,"discusses his personal history and how he was inspired to become an author. He also discusses the genre of magical realism and how it applies to his work.
Date Issued: 2002
Identifier: ArthurRosenfeld, fscj:13502
Format: Video file

Title: Ashok Khosla.
Abstract/Description: The Earth Summit was held June 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This summit was the largest gathering of world leaders, who represented one hundred seventy-eight nations. Dr. Ashok Khosla, an Indian environmentalist and founder of the magazine Sustainable Development, discusses his vision for the global economy for the next ten years after the Earth Summit.
Date Issued: 1992
Identifier: AshokKhosla
Format: Video file

Title: Ashok Khosla and Hazel Henderson.
Abstract/Description: The Earth Summit was held June 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This summit was the largest gathering of world leaders, who represented one hundred seventy-eight nations. Sustainable developmentalist Dr. Ashok Khosla and futurist Hazel Henderson, both participants of the Earth Summit who represented non-governmental organizations, were interviewed in this video and gave their synopsis of the Summit.
Date Issued: 1992
Identifier: AshokKhoslaandHazel Henderson
Format: Video file

Title: Bettina Gregory.
Abstract/Description: Bettina Gregory, an ABC News Correspondent for more than 25 years who won the Edward R. Murrow Award for coverage of the O.J. Simpson Criminal Trial, discusses her career as a Senior Correspondent. NOTE: This file is incomplete, and interview starts mid-stream.
Date Issued: 1987
Identifier: Bettina Gregory
Format: Video file

Title: Betty Lehan Harragan.
Abstract/Description: Betty Lehan Harragan, author of Games Mother Never Taught You, shares her insights into women and the workforce and explains how the corporate structure is based on being part of a team and how many women are unfamiliar with this concept. NOTE: This video is incomplete, and interview starts midway through.
Date Issued: 1985
Identifier: Betty Lehan Harragan
Format: Video file

Title: Beverly Sills.
Abstract/Description: Famous soprano Beverly Sills, who became the general manager of the New York City Opera after she retired from singing in 1980, discusses her career as an opera star, her role models, and her family.
Date Issued: 1990
Identifier: BeverlySills
Format: Video file

Title: Bill Grace - Ethical Leadership.
Abstract/Description: Dr. Bill Grace, founder and executive director of the Center for Ethical Leadership, discusses ethical leadership and transformative leadership.
Date Issued: 1998
Identifier: BillGrace2
Format: Video file

Title: Bill Grace-Ethics in Society.
Abstract/Description: Dr. Bill Grace, founder and executive director of the Center for Ethical Leadership, discusses the importance of understanding ethics in society and how to integrate 18 specific values into daily life to benefit the whole of society.
Date Issued: 1998
Identifier: BillGrace
Format: Video file

Title: Bob Woodson.
Abstract/Description: Bob Woodson, the President of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise in Washington, D.C., shares how his agency helps give empowerment strategies to lower income communities. This episode is guest hosted by Dr. Afesha Adams, Dean of the College of Arts and Science at the University of North Florida.
Date Issued: 1992
Identifier: BobWoodson
Format: Video file

Title: Carla Hartsfield: The Music of Poetry.
Abstract/Description: Carla Hartsfield began her career as a musician but she wanted a non-musical way to express herself so she started to write poetry in addition to her other creative pursuits. In this interview she reads multiple selections of her poetry. Episode #: ?
Date Issued: 2001
Identifier: CarlaHartsfield, fscj:13504
Format: Video file

Title: Carolyn Forche.
Abstract/Description: Poet, teacher, translator, and activist Carolyn Forché - whose poetry has been praised by Joyce Carol Oates and who received a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled to El Salvador with Amnesty International, where she witnessed the civil war - discusses how she became a professional poet and shares selections of her politically engaged poetry.
Date Issued: 1990
Identifier: CarolynForche
Format: Video file

Title: Claude Pepper.
Abstract/Description: Congressman Claude Pepper, who served in the Florida House of Representatives as well as the U.S. House and Senate, discusses aging, and argues for the preservation of Social Security.
Date Issued: 1984
Identifier: ClaudePepper
Format: Video file

Title: Clifton Taulbert: Front Porch Stories.
Abstract/Description: Clifton Taulbert, author of Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored, discusses his new book, Eight Habits of the Heart ,and the significance of the front porch in Southern culture. Mr. Taulbert also reminisces about his relationship with Bobby Kennedy.
Date Issued: 1999
Identifier: CliftonTaulbert, fscj:13503
Format: Video file

Title: Connie May Fowler.
Abstract/Description: Connie May Fowler, author of Before Women had Wings, shares how her life as a young child growing up in Florida was the basis for this novel. She also discusses how the character of Zora in the novel was a tribute to author Zora Neal Hurston.
Date Issued: 1996
Identifier: ConnieMayFowler2
Format: Video file

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