March 30, 2006
Joe Shaw University Libraries, read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown. Patrick Visel,University Libraries, read from ‘The Midnight Court’ by Brian Merryman..
April 6, 2006 
Susan Metros, CIO Administration, read from her father
William Yenofsky’s published and unpublished World War II recollections. http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/wwii/credits_susan.html
April 13, 2006
Pat Peterson, University Libraries, read selections from Marge Piercy and other poets in honor of national Poetry month. Dona Straley, University Libraries, read a short story by Connie Willis, “Even the Queen“.
April 20, 2006
Tom Minnick, Office of Minority Affairs, read a selection of poems about Spring, some even focused on April, by a wide variety of poets—Chaucer, Hopkins, cummings, Stevens, and others.
Richard Green, Department of English, read from the works of William McGonagall. It has been said of McGonagall, that he was “so giftedly bad he backed unwittingly into genius.”
April 27, 2006
Rebecca Haidt, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, read poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca in Spanish with accompanying translation.
Mike Valinis, University Libraries, read from some favorite American poets including William Stafford, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Conrad Aiken, Robinson Jeffers and others.
May 4, 2006
Catherine Shaw, University Libraries , read Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. Nancy Courtney, University Libraries, read a selection from Helene Hanff’s book Underfoot in Show Business.
May 11, 2006
Ohio House of Representative member Joyce Beatty State Senators Ray Miller and Steve Stivers, read from the work of Ohio writers on behalf of the Ohioana Library.
Representative Beatty read some excerpts from Paul Lawrence Dunbar from of her personal collection of poety, as well as some selections of her own poetry.
Senator Stivers read from A fragile capital : identity and the early years of Columbus by Charles Chester Cole. Senator Miller read a selection from King of the cats : the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. written by his friend Wil Haygood.
May 18, 2006
Edward A. Riedinger, University Libraries, read a selection of poems by Constantinos Cavafy. Gregor Hens, Germanic Languages, read selections from Thomas Mann’s early novella “Little Herr Friedemann” (1896).
May 25, 2006
Theatre Research Institute presented a special program from The Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute featuring a 1949 episode from the radio series “Young Love” read by Beth Kattelman, Orville Martin, Brittany Nau, Doreen Salkiewicz, Joey Thomas, Barbara Yost.
June 1, 2006
Readings from the current exhibit Upon the Shoulders of Giants: The History of Western Scientific Inquiry selected by Timothy Dickey, Ron Ravneberg and Bill Rich. Readings included selections from Galileo’s Dialogo to Bronowski’s Ascent of Man.
