Vermont Public Interest Research Group Collection
Scope and Content
The VPIRG collection hold reports, clippings, correspondence, and public relations materials generated by the organization and other in connection with the various topics of public interest between the early 1970s and the mid 1990s.
Dates
- 1973-1995
Creator
- Vermont Public Interest Research Group (Organization)
Language of Materials
English
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Manuscripts.
Extent
42.5 Linear Feet
Abstract
The VPIRG collection hold reports, clippings, correspondence, and public relations materials generated by the organization and other in connection with the various topics of public interest between the early 1970s and the mid 1990s.
Arrangement Note
The collection has received no archival processing. The inventory represents the box and folder labels applied by VPIRG, though in the process of making the inventory available for web publication, we translated many of the abbreviations to full words.
Physical Location
Library Research Annex; contact uvmsc@uvm.edu for access.
Physical Description
41 cartons, 1 shoebox, 1 box album.
- Air quality management
- Animal experimentation
- Animal testing alternatives
- Automobile industry and trade -- Laws and legislation -- Vermont
- Banking law
- Bovine somatotropin
- Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
- Central Vermont Solid Waste Disposal Landfill
- Child welfare
- Climate changes
- Clippings
- Consumer protection
- Electric utilities
- Energy conservation
- Energy consumption
- Energy policy
- Global warming
- Green Mountain Power Corporation
- Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric
- Hazardous waste
- Health care reform
- Hydro-Quebec
- Incineration
- Insurance -- State supervision
- Insurance, Physicians' liability
- Lease and rental services
- Radiation preservation of food
- Radioactive waste disposal
- Radon
- Reports
- Taxation
- Torts
- Vermont Public Interest Research Group
- Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation
- Vermont. Public Service Board
- Vicon Recovery Systems, Inc
- Vivisection
- Voter registration
- Title
- Inventory of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group Collection, 1973-1995
- Status
- In Progress
- Date
- 1998
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Vermont Libraries, Special Collections Repository
Silver Special Collections Library
48 University Place, Room B201
Burlington Vermont 05405 U.S.A. US
(802) 656-2138
(802) 656-4038 (Fax)
uvmsc@uvm.edu
