Guide to the Bureau for Research in Municipal Government Publications, 1915-1964
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Bureau for Research in Municipal Government: Municipal Research Series, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
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The Bureau for Research in Municipal Government was established at Bowdoin College in September, 1914, to train students in the use of primary source material relating to town and city governments, and to supply information to government officials, civic organizations, and citizens of Maine towns and cities. Orren Chalmer Hormell, Bowdoin Professor of Government, was the Bureau's founder, first director, and author of the bulk of the monographs in the Bureau's Municipal Research Series. The Bureau's library contained material dealing with state and local government and public administration. In September 1966 the Bureau for Research in Municipal Government and the Center for Economic Research merged to form the Public Affairs Research Center. With the merger, the Municipal Research Series was replaced by the Public Affairs Research Center's publication, Maine Business Indicators.
This series contains the twenty-five monographs published by the Bureau for Research in Municipal Government between 1915 and 1964 on various aspects of state and local government in Maine. The monographs comprise the Bureau's Municipal Research Series, many of which are also issues of the Bowdoin College Bulletin.
No. 1, Municipal Accounting and Reporting by Orren Chalmer Hormell, 1915 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 57)
No. 2, Budget-Making for Maine Towns by Orren Chalmer Hormell, 1916 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 64.1)
No. 3, Sources of Municipal Revenue in Maine by Orren Chalmer Hormell, 1918 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 76)
No. 4, The Direct Primary: With Special Reference to the State of Maine by Orren Chalmer Hormell, 1922 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 123)
No. 5, Essentials of Government: A Study Program Prepared for the Auburn Witenagemote by Orren Chalmer Hormell, 1925 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 145)
No. 6, Cost of Primaries and Elections in Maine by Orren Chalmer Hormell, 1926 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 157)
No. 7, Maine Public Utilities by Orren Chalmer Hormell, 1927 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 164)
No. 8, Corrupt Practices Legislation in Maine and How it Works by Orren Chalmer Hormell, 1929 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 184)
No. 9, Maine Towns by Orren Chalmer Hormell, 1932 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 198)
No. 10, Personnel Problems in Maine: The Merit System by Orren Chalmer Hormell, 1936 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 233)
No. 11, Zoning Manual for Maine Towns by Orren Chalmer Hormell and Roy Hamilton Owsley, 1940 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 250)
No. 12, Financing Local Government by Lawrence Lee Pelletier, 1948
No. 13, Retirement Plan for Employees of Maine Towns by Orren Chalmer Hormell, 1949 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 293)
No. 14, The Manager Plan for Maine Municipalities by Orren Chalmer Hormell and Lawrence Lee Pelletier, 1949 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 294)
No. 15, Financing State Government by Lawrence Lee Pelletier, 1950 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 298)
No. 16, The Initiative and Referendum in Maine by Lawrence Lee Pelletier, 1951 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 300)
No. 17, A Charter for Council-Manager Towns in Maine edited by Lawrence Lee Pelletier, 1953 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 310)
No. 18, Planning and Zoning for Maine Municipalities by Orren Chalmer Hormell, 1955 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 319)
No. 19, Maine Economic Development and the Community Survey by James A. Storer, 1956 (Bowdoin College Bulletin, no. 320)
No. 20, Municipal Charters in Maine: The Case of Brunswick by Clement E. Vose and Kenneth E. Carpenter, 1958 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 331)
No. 21, The Executive Council of Maine in Decline by Clement E. Vose, 1959
No. 22, Religion and the Maine Schools: An Historical Approach by Ernst C. Helmreich, 1960
No. 23, Politics and Ethnocentrism: The Case of the Franco-Americans by David B. Walker, 1961 (cataloged individually, see Spec Coll F30 F8 W3 1961)
No. 24, Managers in Maine by James Wilson and Robert W. Crowe, 1962 (Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 343)
No. 25, A Maine Profile: Some Conditioners of Her Political System by David B. Walker, 1964