2012
Library News
- July 02, 2012
Mickey Hart talks about UCSC Archive in Sunday LA Times
The June 29 public opening of UCSC’s Grateful Dead Archive has generated widespread and extensive media coverage. As reporter Matt Stevens noted in a story published in the July 1 edition of the Sunday Los Angeles Times...
- June 29, 2012
UC Santa Cruz launches the Grateful Dead Archive Online
The UCSC Library announced today that the public can now access the Grateful Dead Archive Online through the GDAO website at www.gdao.org.
- June 12, 2012
Moonalice to help UC Santa Cruz open Grateful Dead Archive June 29
UC Santa Cruz will celebrate the public opening of the Grateful Dead Archive at the University Library on Friday, June 29, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
- May 14, 2012
The man behind the gift to ‘Dead Central’
Dead Central, the long-awaited 1,400-square-foot exhibit space for the Grateful Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz, is now complete—thanks to Santa Barbara investor and philanthropist Scott Brittingham.
- April 30, 2012
McHenry Rededication celebration attracts hundreds to newly renovated library
Several hundred alumni, students, faculty, and community supporters joined University Librarian Ginny Steel and Chancellor Blumenthal last Friday for the official Rededication of McHenry Library.
- April 02, 2012
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame exhibit draws from UCSC Grateful Dead Archive
On April 12, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will launch a major exhibition on the Grateful Dead, featuring a significant number of items on loan from The Grateful Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz.
- February 09, 2012
New book traces UCSC’s role in organic and sustainable farm movement
A new book published by the UCSC Library’s Regional History Project offers a window into the 40-year history of how UC Santa Cruz--and California’s Central Coast—became leaders in the organic farming and sustainable agriculture movement.
- February 07, 2012
Library’s book conservator contributes to project for Japan’s tsunami survivors
The University Library’s Hisako Nakazawa has joined the OKAERI PROJECT, an international effort initiated by the Tokyo Bookbinding Club.
- February 02, 2012
Grateful Dead Archivist headed to Dead Studies Conference
On February 8, UCSC’s Grateful Dead Archivist Nicholas Meriwether will head to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the "Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Conference."
- January 23, 2012
UCSC to host ‘What is a Reader?’ day of events, Jan. 26
On Jan. 26, UC Santa Cruz will host a full day of "What Is A Reader?" events, with workshops plus a free public lecture by novelist, essayist, and book historian Alberto Manguel
