The Clamshell Alliance, a loosely-knit coalition of antinuclear groups, was formed in July 1976 to protest the construction of a nuclear reactor in Seabrook, New Hampshire. Inspired by successful antinuclear citizen protests in Germany and Western Massachusetts, the Clams put a spotlight on the issue of nuclear power by means of public education and nonviolent civil disobedience, petitions and picket lines, rallies and site occupations.
Committed to a policy of inclusiveness and equality, giving equal weight to every voice, the Clams adopted - and eventually struggled with — consensus decision-making and they deliberately eschewed elected leaders. But perhaps their most important legacy was demonstrating that ordinary people have the right, the ability, and the responsibility to challenge and change the direction of energy policy in the United States.
In 2007 veterans of the Clamshell Alliance marked the 30th anniversary of its founding with the creation of a website To the Village Square: Nukes, Clams and Democracy, which relates the story of the Clamshell Alliance and why it matters today.
The Clamshell Alliance collection contains primary source materials related to the functioning of the organization – correspondence, office records, committee minutes, press releases, financial information - as well as information pertaining to the Alliance’s interactions with the courts of New Hampshire. There are also documents relating to the decommissioning of the Seabrook reactor.
National Public Radio has recently produced a story about libraries’ decisions to digitize their collections, whether through corporate sponsors like Google or non-profit organizations like the Internet Archive.
As a member of the Boston Library Consortium, the University of New Hampshire Library is participating in the Internet Archive’s Open Content Alliance (OCA) book digitization project by contributing public domain materials from its collection. Since scanning began in January, the Library has contributed more than 126,454 pages to the OCA Northeast Regional Scanning Center at the Boston Public Library.
For more information, see our Digital Collections.
The new Dimond Academic Commons (DAC) Express Quick Printing Station allows you to print documents even during busy times in Dimond Library.
The station is a standard cluster computer located in Dimond Library next to the printers on Level 3 (Main Level). Use is limited to five minutes to ensure its availability for others.
The Dimond Academic Commons combines physical and virtual resources in an attractive and comfortable environment where students, faculty, and staff can meet and interact, working collaboratively or alone. It merges academic and technical resources and offers the support of expert faculty and staff from Dimond Library and Computing and Information Services (CIS).
The UNH Parents Association has generously awarded funds for two projects in the library.
The first supports the purchase of new laptop computers and cases for the library. Laptops are available for patron use and can be checked out from the Reserve Desk, located on Level 3 in Dimond Library.
Also, the Parents Association has again awarded $2,500 to the Film Underground to add a selection of DVDs to our multimedia collection. These DVDs will be available to patrons and also used for Film Underground film screenings.
The UNH Film Underground is a student-run organization which sponsors showings of rare, classic, foreign, and independent films on the big screen. Showings are followed by an open forum of discussion and analysis. In 2006, the Film Underground formed a partnership with the Collection Development department of the UNH Library.
As a member of the Boston Library Consortium, the University of New Hampshire Library is participating in the Internet Archive’s Open Content Alliance (OCA) book digitization project by contributing public domain materials from its collection.
Since scanning began in January, the Library has contributed more than 126,454 pages to the OCA Northeast Regional Scanning Center at the Boston Public Library. This represents 711 items with an average page count of 178 per item, including the Granite Monthly magazine, New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins, the Manual for the General Court (the “red books”), and selected New Hampshire local history monographs.
For a brief description of the OCA project, selection criteria, and links to books we’ve already scanned, visit the Digital Collections page on the Library Website and select Open Content Alliance from the right side menu: http://www.library.unh.edu/diglib/.
