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Banana Slugs Seeking Grateful Dead Archivist

8:11 p.m. · November 10, 2009 · by Mike Burr

That Master's in Library Science might have been hard to get, but some jobs are just worth the struggle:

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.

There are probably about a million Dead fans out there seriously thinking about going back to school to apply for this job, and it's kind of sad that it will be long gone by the time they graduate. Even scarier is that our entire next generation of llibrarians will smell like patchouli. [Boing Boing]