Speaker’s Book:

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts, by Joshua Hammer

To Knot, Or Not To Knot – Inca String Encoding

Print:

• Mathematics of the Incas: Code of the Quipu, by Marcia Ascher & Robert Ascher
• Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu, by Jeffrey Quilter 
• The Cord Keepers: Khipus and Cultural Life in a Peruvian Village, by Frank L. Salomon

Carl Akeley: the Story of a Revolutionary Taxidermist

Online:

• Carl Akeley – Badass of the Week 
• Carl Ethan Akeley – Taxidermy4Cash 
• A Short History of Taxidermy – Ravishing Beasts
• “The Man Who Felt the Attraction of Life in the Silent Places and the Wide Waste Spaces of the Earth,” a memorial to Teddy Roosevelt written by Carl Akeley – Today in Science History
• Podcast – Smithsonian Taxidermist: A Dying Job Title – NPR

Print:

• In Brightest Africa,  by Carl Akeley (Available online here at Archive.org)
• Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Adventure, Obsession, and One Man’s Quest to Preserve the World’s Great Animals,  by Jay Kirk
• Windows on Nature: The Great Habitat Dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History,  by Stephen C. Quinn

Going Out With A Bang: the Evolution of Film and Media Archival

Online:

• A Short Guide to Film Base Photographic Materials: Identification, Care, and Duplication – Monique Fischer
• On Film Degradation –  STIL Casing Solutions
• A Sneeze Caught On Film –  Library of Congress.
• Film From The Ashes – John Lingan
• Film Forever: The Home Film Preservation Guide
• Start Your Own Cinema – Academic Film Archive of North America.
• Film Preservation Basics – Paul Ivester

Print:

• Nitrate Won’t Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United States, by Anthony Slide
• Fort Lee: The Film Town, by Richard Koszarski

Archiving Television: from Guiding Light to the Lost Episodes of Doctor Who

Print:

• That’s the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America, by Charles L. Ponce de Leon
• Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television,  by Erik Barnouw
• Television, and International History, edited by Anthony Smith
• The History of Television 1942 – 2000, by Albert Abramson
• The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1920-1961, by Jeff Kisseloff

Online:

• Why TV Is Going Movie-Mad – Popular Science February 1955
• Guiding Light Flickers Out – Kinetescope HD
• RT’s Checklist of Missing Doctor Who Episodes – Patrick Mulkern
• Are There 90 Newly Found Doctor Who Episodes from the 1960s – or Not? – Radio Times
• Betamax is Dead, Long Live VHS – The Guardian
• RIP VHS: World’s Last VCR Will Be Made This Month – Forbes
• A Short History of Radio – FCC

Time Capsules: Selfies for the Future

Online:

• Unboxing videos of the Warhol Time Capsule – YouTube
• Box Number 21 – The Warhol
• (Podcast) – 514 Thought that Counts (Starlee Kine tells the story of hundreds of boxes left behind by the late Andy Warhol.) – This American Life 
• The Time Capsule Archiving Project Slideshow – The Andy Warhol Museum – Marie Elia
• The Accidental IPM Program (Presentation on the Warhol Museum’s bug infestation resulting from the Time Capsules0 – Amber E. Morgan
• The Crypt of Civilization Official Website
• A Peek Inside the Crypt of Civilization – Scientific American

Print:

• Online collection of  books by Thornwell Jacobs, creator of the Crypt of Civilizations – University of Pennsylvania
• Step Down, Dr. Jacobs; The Autobiography of an Autocrat, by Thornwell Jacobs (online at Babel)

The Case of the Disappearing Comrade

Online:

• The Commissar Vanishes Page One of Five – David King
• The Role of National Archives in Constructing National Master Narratives in Europe – Stefan Berger
• Removing Records Documenting Acts of Violence and Atrocities from the Archive – Emily Kozinski

Print:

• The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive, by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
• The Stalin School of Falsification, by Leon Trotsky (available online at www.marxists.org/)
•  Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives, by Paul R. Gregory
• The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin’s Russia, by David King

For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Kurt Larson, Casey Selden, Jonathan Pirro, Barbara North, Becka Robbins, and Andrey Tselikov. Thank you!