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Several years ago, after seeing three or four of the Wilson plays, I decided to buy the whole series of ten plays to read one by one. About the same time, in a conversation at the reference desk (where I worked part-time as a reference librarian at American University) with a library user who was also an OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) learner, I decided to submit a proposal to form a study group. The proposal was accepted and a surprising number of learners signed up, once, twice, three times, now up to five times. Now it is an annual offering that is always fully subscribed. Each time, each session, I maintained a set of notes and lesson plans by posting them to a running blog. The text of this guide is in large part a compilation and a consolidation of those notes and lesson plans.

This newsletter will be available at a very nominal fee to members of the study group and to the public at large. As I add new courses, I re-read the plays and will add new content to each play’s discussion

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A lifelong learner, I arrived late to the process of formal instruction as a teaching librarian/archivist, my former careers being in the military (Navy) and the diplomatic service (overseas assignments principally in Africa and the Middle East). Since retiring from government, I earned an MS in Library and Information Science and have worked as a reference and instruction librarian, an archives program analyst, a town archivist, and a manuscripts librarian. For the past four years I have led American Century Cycle study groups in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at American University.

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