When times are tight and hiring is frozen, you have to set your priorities. You have to do less with more. You can only afford to retain absolutely essential staff--and when you hire, you must do so with an eye to bringing in people whose skills and experience are utterly vital to your organization's ability to sustain itself and fulfill its mission. At UC Santa Cruz, they've done the hard thinking, and they've made the tough decisions. And so they are hiring the person without whom they cannot go forward:

Grateful Dead Archivist

The University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, seeks an enterprising, creative, and service-oriented archivist to join the staff of Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) as Archivist for the Grateful Dead Archive. This is a potential career status position. The Archivist will be part of a dynamic, collegial, and highly motivated department dedicated to building, preserving, promoting, and providing maximum access both physically and virtually to one of the Library's most exciting and unique collections, The Grateful Dead Archive (GDA). The UCSC University Library utilizes innovative approaches to allow the discovery, use, management, and sharing of information in support of research, teaching, and learning.

Under the general direction of the Head of Special Collections and Archives, the GDA 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.