Calling All Deadhead Librarians: Your Job Hunt is Over

Dear Website Visitor,

Please answer the following questions as they apply to you. Answering yes to one qualifies you to continue on to the next:

1. Can you read?
2. Do you love The Grateful Dead?
3. No, like really, really love The Grateful Dead?
4. As in, do you love them enough that you’d want to potentially spend the rest of your professional life sorting, cataloging and archiving Grateful Dead music and related literature, manuscripts and relics into one of the country’s most impressive Grateful Dead library collections?
5. Do you have a master’s degree in archives management?

It all sounds perfect until that last one, right?

Regardless, if you made it through all five questions, your life’s work has arrived. As spotted on The Daily Swarm, the University of California Santa Cruz is looking for someone to fill what is quite possibly the coolest librarian job ever: Archivist for the Grateful Dead Archive in the University’s Special Collections & Archives (SC&A). As the University reports, the Archivist, “will provide managerial and curatorial oversight of the Grateful Dead Archive, plan for and oversee the physical and digital processing of Archives related material, and promote the GDA to the public and facilitate its use by scholars, fans, and students.”

In other words, said Archivist will organize the messy world of The Grateful Dead into a neat collection of organized chaos. Plus, we have to imagine that listening to some of the best music of all time would be a prerogative. And with more academic study of The Grateful Dead than any band short of The Beatles, this job could last quite a while.

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