Are You a Deadhead? The Grateful Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz is Looking for an Archivist
In a September post, we listed many of the projects that were going to receive National Leadership Grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). One grant recipient that got a lot of attention was the University of California Santa Cruz who received funding ($615,000) to digitize material from its Grateful Dead Archive and call it Virtual Terrapin Station.
Today, more news from UC Santa Cruz. We came a cross a post with news that the Grateful Dead Archive is looking for an archivist. If you're a Deadhead archivist this might be the job for you. Here's what the item in Relix says:
The University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, which currently houses the Grateful Dead Archives, is searching for an archivist for its lauded collection. According to an advertisement, “the University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, seeks an enterprising, creative, and service-oriented archivist to join the staff of Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) as Archivist for the Grateful Dead Archive. This is a potential career status position.
Here's theactual job posting via the SAA (Society of American Archivists) web site.
The posting went online November 6th.
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