"Road Maps for Babel: Some Thoughts on the Art of Literary Translation" by David Young, Emeritus Professor of English, for the Friends of the Library Commencement/Reunion Weekend on May 29, 2004 [PDF]
"Looking for a Good Time: Reading, Libraries, and the World of Books" by Michael Dirda (OC '70), writer and senior editor for The Washington Post's Book World, at the Annual Dinner of the Friends of the Oberlin College Library on September 28, 2002. [PDF]
"Second Chances" by Scott Bennett (OC '60), University Librarian at Yale, at the Annual Dinner of the Friends of the Library on November 13, 1999. [PDF]
"Recalling Classics" by Nathan Greenberg for the Friends of the Library on April 29, 1999
"Words, Words, Words" by Dewey Ganzel, Emeritus Professor of English, for the 1997 Friends of the Library Commencement/Reunion Weekend Program.
Memorial Minute for Eileen Thornton, Emerita Librarian of Oberlin College. Read at the General Faculty Meeting of March 25, 1997 by Ray English, Director of Libraries.
"Johannes Petreius (c. 1497-1550): A Study in the History of Learned Publishing" by Anthony Grafton, Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, as the 1997 Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture on November 1, 1997. [PDF]
"Along Many Trails - To a Single Destination," by J. Milton Yinger, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, for the 1996 Friends of the Library Commencement/Reunion weekend program
"Reading and the Future of Libraries" by Nancy Schrom Dye, President of Oberlin College, at the Annual Dinner of the Friends of the Oberlin College Library on November 4, 1995. [PDF]
"Lessons Learned and Not Learned at Oberlin" by Johnnetta B. Cole (OC '57), President of Spelman College, at the Annual Dinner of the Friends of the Oberlin College Library on November 5, 1994. [PDF]