Archives 101 for Graduate Students

McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA

Feeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experience with our collections, chat about archives with your fellow grad students, and get your questions answered about archival research at UCSC and beyond. Curious undergrads are welcome, too! Space is limited. Please RSVP so we can get an accurate headcount. This event is co-sponsored by the Center […]

Archives 101 for Graduate Students

McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA

Feeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experience with our collections, chat about archives with your fellow grad students, and get your questions answered about archival research at UCSC and beyond.   Curious undergrads are welcome, too!   Space is limited. Please RSVP so we can get an accurate headcount.   Learn more about the Center […]

Printing Party in McHenry Library

McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA

On Monday, 10/6, Special Collections and Archives is bringing our BookBeetle (a mini replica Gutenberg-era common press) into the 3rd floor hallway of McHenry Library for a printing party! Participants will:✔️ learn the mechanics of early printing in the West✔️ decorate the cover of a notebook that’s yours to take home! Very casual; just drop […]

“All the Pages Are My Days”: Print and Visual Culture of the Grateful Dead in Context

McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA

This exhibition celebrates the art and print material generated by the Grateful Dead and their fans in the context of the printing explosion of the 1960s and ‘70s. As the Dead came into popularity and an anti-establishment counterculture spread throughout the nation, democratic print technologies were concomitantly adopted into widespread use. In the Bay Area […]

Last modified: Oct 23, 2025