Great Courses DVD Learning Series

Eleven years of Thursday afternoons, and they have not run out of subjects.

The Great Courses DVD Learning Series is the library's long-running lifelong learning program, now in its eleventh year. Each run works through a course of filmed seminars from The Teaching Company, taught by scholars from major colleges and universities across the United States, and the subjects rotate widely from one block to the next. The current run is on Winston Churchill.

Good to know. Free, two hours on Thursday afternoons in the Schaffner Room.

Check before you go. It does not run every single Thursday. There are breaks around the holidays and a scattering of skipped weeks through the spring, so look at the library's calendar for the week you are planning on.

It runs a long way ahead. The library has dates posted through to late May, which makes this one of the easier things to plan around.