Grateful Dead Archive.pptVIP

* The gift was announced at a press conference held at the Fillmore in San Francisco, one of the band’s favorite venues in the Bay area. Mickey Hart and Bob Weir attended as well as Eileen Law (“mother” of the archive) and a number of other people associated with the band. The story made the front page of the SF Chronicle and was picked up in more than 200 news outlets around the world. Rolling Stone called. The campus public information office estimated that UCSC got more than $40,000 worth of free publicity from the story. * * * Literally! 60 linear feet, 2,000 square feet Many duplicates and large items * 2,000 square feet Including show files, backstage passes, box office records, business records and correspondence, photos, graphics, posters, art work, press clippings, recorded interviews, fan mail, stage backdrops Posters, t-shirts, caps, drawings, tickets Realia: furniture, stage props, filing cabinets, guitars, paper roses, etc. * * The “miracle envelopes”—about 12,000 of them! * We knew we were tackling something big when we decided to make a play for the archive… * Need expensive equipment and materials to accomplish this! Vast quantities of material! Can we play a bit of “Not Fade Away”? * Another challenge in processing, and one that’s going to be labor-intensive… * How do we find and link to the 15,000 plus YouTube videos and thousands of other websites? How do we decide how to construct a blended archive that includes the content from the Deadhead community? Is all user-contributed content appropriate for the site? Do we preserve everything forever? Does this model scale? How expensive will it be to maintain and expand? * We accepted this gift without processing money – with and against our better knowledge. Our goal is to raise $2 million, 1million for an endowed archivist position, 1 million for actual processing cost and equipment * Our aim to create an on-going stream of income to support the archive as it grows. We’re off to a strong