UC Santa Cruz has received a major grant to help digitize the Grateful Dead Archive at the university library.

The university was awarded a National Leadership Grant of 615,175 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services IMLS.The grant will allow the UCSC Library to digitize materials from its Grateful Dead Archive spanning from 1965 to 1995. The project will include a new website titled, The Virtual Terrapin Station.We are honored to be among a select group of libraries and museums chosen as recipients of National Leadership Grants, said UCSC Librarian Virginia Steel.