If you can’t find a business, finance or economics DVD at the Los Angeles Public Library to your liking, try the library’s newest e-media offering, Kanopy. Kanopy is a video streaming platform with one of the largest collections in the world - over 26,000 documentaries and feature films from over 1,000 producers including Great Courses, Frontline, Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, and the BBC.
Kanopy documentaries are exhaustive in scope and cover business subjects such as:
- Business Case Studies, 79 videos
- Business Skills, 354 videos
- Career Development, 421 videos
- Economics and Globalization, 325 videos
- Leadership Training, 477 videos
To use Kanopy, create an account with your email address. After verifying the account information, you will be asked to add your Los Angeles Public Library card to it to begin using the service. Library card holders can check out 10 films per month and each film has a loan period of three days. However, there is one exception: Criterion Collection films will not count towards your 10 play credits every month. You can stream unlimited films from the Criterion Collection.
To find a documentary, just enter a term such as financial investing in the search box at the top of the page. Refine your results using criteria such as Subjects, Suppliers, Filmmakers, Features, Languages, Captions and Year of production. To retrieve only videos from the Great Courses “The Art of Investing” series (24 videos), use Suppliers to select Great Courses. For more information about using Kanopy and sharing videos, please visit Kanopy's Help Center.