This is a first for the UCSC Library, and the grant gives us the opportunity to create a new model for webbased archives that will include traditional materials from our Grateful Dead Archivealong with materials contributed by scholars and Deadheads around

The website will offer access to the Grateful Dead Archive materials, including original documents, clippings, media, articles along with three decades of the bands recordings and its performance of thousands of concerts.The website will also allow fans to contribute to the archive. The library plans to develop a clickthrough permissions form for content contributors to help extend the reach of the archive to the academic community.The Grateful Dead donated their large band archive to UC Santa Cruz in 2009. The processing of the archive is expected to be completed in 2012 with parts of the collection being made available as the work progresses.