Editing Grateful Dead (section)

==Donation of archives to UC Santa Cruz==
On April 24, 2008, members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, along with Nion McEvoy, CEO of [[Chronicle Books]], [[University of California, Santa Cruz|UC Santa Cruz]] chancellor [[George Blumenthal (astrophysicist)|George Blumenthal]], and UC Santa Cruz librarian Virginia Steel, held a press conference announcing UCSC's [[McHenry Library]] would be the permanent home of the [[Grateful Dead Archive]], which includes a complete archival history from 1965 to the present. The archive includes correspondence, photographs, fliers, posters, and several other forms of memorabilia and records of the band. Also included are unreleased videos of interviews and TV appearances that will be installed for visitors to view, as well as stage backdrops and other props from the band's concerts.

Blumenthal stated at the event, "The Grateful Dead Archive represents one of the most significant popular cultural collections of the 20th century; UC Santa Cruz is honored to receive this invaluable gift. The Grateful Dead and UC Santa Cruz are both highly innovative institutions—born the same year—that continue to make a major, positive impact on the world." Guitarist Bob Weir stated "We looked around, and UC Santa Cruz seems the best possible home. If you ever wrote the Grateful Dead a letter, you'll probably find it there!"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.ucsc.edu/2008/04/2142.html|title=Grateful Dead Archive News |website=[[University of California, Santa Cruz]]|access-date=July 16, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110825062823/http://news.ucsc.edu/2008/04/2142.html|archive-date=August 25, 2011}}</ref>

Professor of music [[Fredric Lieberman]] was the key contact between the band and the university, who let the university know about the search for a home for the archive, and who had collaborated with Mickey Hart on three books in the past, ''Planet Drum'' (1990), ''Drumming at the Edge of Magic'' (1991), and ''Spirit into Sound'' (2006).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2142|date=April 24, 2008|title=Grateful Dead Donates Archives to UC Santa Cruz|first=Scott|last=Rappaport|work=UC Santa Cruz News and Events|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528021452/http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2142|archive-date=May 28, 2010}}</ref><ref>Green, Joshua. [https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201003/grateful-dead-archives "Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead"] ''[[The Atlantic]]'', March 2010</ref><ref name=goodreads>{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/97122.Fredric_Lieberman|title=Goodreads: Fredric Lieberman|access-date=June 29, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110121236/http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/97122.Fredric_Lieberman|archive-date=November 10, 2012}}</ref>

The first large-scale exhibition of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive was mounted at the [[New-York Historical Society]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society|url=http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/grateful-dead-now-playing|website=New-York Historical Society|access-date=February 3, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203213751/http://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/grateful-dead-now-playing|archive-date=February 3, 2015}}</ref>