UNH students, faculty oppose potential removal of up to 300k books from library

By: Lau Guzmán

Outlets: NHPR

Published: November 4, 2026

Words: 551

Last Updated: 4 days, 20 hours ago

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Justin Kostopulos is not a traditional art history student at UNH. He’s 35 and a commuter, so he spends a lot of his time between classes wandering the stacks of the library. When he found out the Dimond Library was reviewing nearly 300,000 print titles for potential removal, he started a petition to ask the university to reconsider. Within a week, it gathered over 600 signatures.

“Removing these texts, I think, erases decades of accrued …

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