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• Position: ARCHIVES - University of California-Santa Cruz's Grateful Dead Archive - Brief article

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The University of California-Santa Cruz opened the Grateful Dead Archive to the public in June. The scholarly archive comprises the band's collection, which was donated to the university four years ago.

An article in SFGate reported that the Dead collection consisted of "600 linear feet of office papers and the conference table the musicians sat at while shuffling those papers" The collection has continued to grow.

Nicholas Meriwether, the counterculture historian hired specifically...