 In 2008 , UCSC agreed to house the Grateful Dead archives at the McHenry Library . Exhibits of Grateful Dead Archive materials are on display in the Brittingham Family Foundation 's Dead Central Gallery on the 2nd Floor of McHenry Library . The Dead Central exhibit space is open during all library business hours . UCSC plans to devote an entire room at the library , to be called " Dead Central , " to display the collection and encourage research . UCSC beat out petitions from Stanford and UC Berkeley to house the archives . Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir said that UCSC is " a seat of neo @-@ Bohemian culture that we 're a facet of . There could not have been a cozier place for this collection to land . " Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Dead fans Roger McNamee and Bill Watkins are expected to join a committee to oversee and raise funds for the project . The archive became open to the public July 29 , 2012 . 
