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Books, articles, records and pictures in the index about Institute of Government, found by its names in titles, catalog subjects and the index’s descriptions, and read one by one. Those held at OCPL come first.
Albert Coates's own account of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina, which he founded, subtitled 'out of a classroom in Chapel Hill' and published in 1981. The 303 pages trace the institute's history and its role in educating North Carolina's public officials.
Howard E. Covington Jr.'s biography of Albert Coates (1896-1989), the law professor who founded the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina and led it through its early years. Topics include Coates as a law teacher and the institute's history as a center for the study of public administration in Chapel Hill. Published in 2010 by the University Library at Chapel Hill, 322 pages with 32 pages of plates.
Fourteen plates of Francis Vandeveer Kughler's murals of North Carolina history, painted for the Institute of Government building at Chapel Hill, with six pages of text. Dated 1960 and also carried as a special March 1961 number of the magazine Popular Government. Topics include American mural painting in Chapel Hill and North Carolina history in pictorial works.
Albert Coates's acceptance of the annual award of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Assembly for service to the university, the state and the nation, delivered at Chapel Hill on 17 May 1951 and printed in 41 pages with a portrait. The cover title reads Out of a classroom in Chapel Hill. The address concerns the university's Institute of Government, student government and the teaching of North Carolina politics.
Account of the murals Francis Vandeveer Kughler painted for the assembly hall of the Joseph Palmer Knapp Building, home of the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, printed in six pages by Popular Government and dated November 1960. The first two panels show the meeting of Queen Elizabeth and Walter Raleigh and the first English colony.
Oral history interview with George H. Esser Jr. recorded over the summer of 1990 and issued in 2008. Esser worked with the North Carolina Fund and with Albert Coates's Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, and topics include community development, economic conditions, social reform and race relations in the state.
The dedication of the Joseph Palmer Knapp Building, put up at Chapel Hill to house the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina, published in 1960 as a dedication issue of Popular Government. Thirteen unnumbered pages with illustrations, maps and portraits, covering the building, the institute and Knapp himself, who died in 1951 and for whom it is named.
The program for the dedication of the Joseph Palmer Knapp Building at Chapel Hill, running from 2:30 on Sunday afternoon, November 27, 1960, until noon the next day. The building houses the University of North Carolina's Institute of Government. A short ceremonial publication that dates the structure and lays out two days of events.
Albert Coates circulated this preliminary draft in 1931, proposing county, district and statewide schools where city, county and state officers in North Carolina could study governmental institutions and processes. The plan concerns the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill. Sixty-two leaves, submitted for comment and criticism rather than published, and useful for tracing how the training of public officials began.
Albert Coates tells the story of the Institute of Government he founded at the University of North Carolina, in a 76 page account published in Chapel Hill in 1944. It appeared as the July 1944 issue of Popular Government, volume 10 number 4, reprinted from a National University Extension Association publication.
Letters from friends and associates gathered for John L. Sanders at the close of his tenure as director of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on July 1, 1992. The title calls him North Carolina's invisible hand. Printed by the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill in one unpaginated volume.
Albert Coates, founder of the Institute of Government at UNC, recounts how training schools for police and other law enforcement officers began in North Carolina through the Institute. Published by the author in Chapel Hill in 1983.
Albert Coates, founder of the Institute of Government, reporting to A. Craig Phillips, the state superintendent of public education, on carrying the work of his Chapel Hill classroom into the public schools of North Carolina. Published in 1982, 88 pages with illustrations and portraits. Topics include the institute's history, secondary education in the state and the teaching of law.
Albert Coates writes about linking the study of government with its practice, the aim behind the Institute of Government he founded at UNC. Published by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974.
Sally Wolfe Heindel's history of the library of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina, written in 1965. One hundred and seven leaves at 29 cm, with a bibliography on the last five. Topics include the institute, its library and academic libraries generally.
Albert Coates sets down thoughts on training for the public service drawn from law school classrooms and from work with officials on the job. Issued in 1965 by the Law School of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the piece covers the civil service in North Carolina, for state politics and government, and for the university's Institute of Government.
One hundred forty six and a half linear feet, some 91,000 items, of George H. Esser Jr. (1921-2006) papers covering 1949 to 2007, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4887. Topics include the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Southern Regional Council, MDC Inc. and Joint Orange-Chatham Community Action, with the Chapel of the Cross, Harvard Law School and the Virginia Military Institute also named.
Papers of John L. Sanders spanning 1915 to 2005, roughly 15,500 items across thirty three linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 04858. The papers document his work with the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina system, legislative apportionment, faculty tenure and retirement, community colleges, Research Triangle Park, and preservation groups including Preservation North Carolina and the Tryon Palace Commission.
Joint papers of Albert Coates (1896-1989) and Gladys Hall Coates, 1841 to 2001, about 51,600 items in 73.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3818. The papers cover the law school and the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, student government, local government and community organization in North Carolina, the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, scouting, and the photographer Bayard Morgan Wootten.
Papers of Henry W. Lewis (1916-2004) of the Institute of Government at UNC, spanning 1820 to 1997 in roughly 36,000 items and 61 linear feet, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4456. Diaries and photographs are among the material. Topics include family members named Lewis and Wilkins, the Bank of Northampton, the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina and the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, with Albert Coates and Frank Porter Graham also named.
The Institute of Government at UNC, founded by law professor Albert Coates, in newspaper clippings and promotional materials. Undated folder from box 36 of the UNC series, Chapel Hill Historical Society Vertical File Collection (CHHS.001).
The Institute of Government building in Chapel Hill, the university's center for training and research for state and local officials, on a card from the Graycraft Card Company of Danville, Virginia. Topics include educational facilities, universities and colleges, Chapel Hill and Orange County.
Postcard of the Institute of Government building at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, published by the North Carolina News Company of Durham. The back describes Albert Coates' Institute as a place to study the problems facing public officials, and dates the building, which cost about $50,000, to 1939. Undated.
Material on the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the unit that trained and advised local and state officials.
William H. Holdford's study for the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina of the financial feasibility of annexing areas adjacent to the town of Carrboro, published in Chapel Hill in 1959. It bears on the town's public finance, local government and growth at the end of the 1950s. 38 leaves with a map.
Joseph S. Ferrell prepared this report, dated April 22, 1987, through the Institute of Government at UNC-Chapel Hill for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Merger Study Committee, which was weighing a merger of the two adjoining Orange County towns. It concerns city planning and municipal growth research in North Carolina. Ninety-four leaves plus two further groups of leaves, with maps and a bibliography.
Brochure for the Institute of Government's executive development program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dated March, July and September 1983 on its first page. It is a curriculum for local government officials and employees in North Carolina, the audience the Institute trained. Published by the Institute in Chapel Hill, 16 unnumbered pages in a small format.
A 1955 study of county jobs and pay in Orange County, N.C., prepared by Donald B. Hayman for the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill. It classifies the positions county government then employed, sets out job descriptions and salary questions, and includes charts. Dated September 1955, 47 leaves.
Prepared by the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina in May 1977, this classification plan sets out job descriptions for the positions on the town of Carrboro payroll. Robert White and Donald Hayman signed the letter of transmittal, and the plan was issued alongside a companion pay plan for the town. Seventy leaves at 28 cm.
The companion salary schedule to Carrboro's 1977 position classification study, recommending pay for town officials and employees. Robert White and Donald Hayman of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina signed the letter of transmittal, dated May 1977. Eighteen unnumbered leaves, issued together with the classification plan it accompanies.
Ten years of the Master of Public Administration program at Chapel Hill, from 1966 to 1976, reported in December 1976 by the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina. Sixty-two pages. Topics include the graduate study and teaching of public administration in Chapel Hill.
Prepared by the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina and dated December 1970, this sets out a position classification plan, a pay plan and a personnel ordinance for the town of Hillsborough. Wayne Stallings and Donald Hayman signed the letter of transmittal. Forty unnumbered leaves with illustrations, covering job descriptions, salaries and the legal status of town officials and employees.
Program for the first Institute for Parole Board Members, which met at the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill from February 10 to 16, 1963, and sponsored by the National Parole Institutes and the Training Center on Delinquency and Youth Crime. It opens with a welcome by V.L. Bounds. Published by the Institute of Government, 8 unnumbered pages with illustrations and a map.
Personnel study prepared by the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina in July 1963 at the request of Orange County, proposing a position classification, a pay plan and a personnel resolution for the county's employees. The letter of transmittal is signed by Donald Hayman. 31 leaves and 34 pages with one illustration, including job descriptions.
The 1961 revised compilation of Chapel Hill ordinances, issued in mimeograph by the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina. It takes in the town's compiled and revised ordinances through the end of 1960 along with those adopted during 1961. Municipal ordinance It deals with the town's successive codifications of its own law.
Supplement to the 1961 revised compilation of Chapel Hill ordinances, gathering all ordinances the town adopted during the year 1961. Prepared through the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina with Milton S. Heath, Jr., it continues the series of municipal codifications.
An index to the 1961 revised compilation of Chapel Hill's town ordinances, prepared in 1962 by the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina. It gives subject access to the municipal code then in force.
Milton S. Heath, Jr. of the Institute of Government prepared this five leaf report for the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen, dated January 11, 1961, on a proposed revision of the town charter. It sits with the other Institute of Government material on the Chapel Hill charter and concerns charters for the town.
Milton S. Heath, Jr.'s report of January 1961 to the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen on the revised compilation of the town's ordinances, prepared through the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina. A companion to the compilation of town ordinances.
The revised charter of the town of Chapel Hill as prepared by Milton S. Heath, Jr. and issued by the Institute of Government in 1961, sixty-two leaves, with an eleven leaf index and a 1969 amendment bound in at the end. The title comes from the Institute's own publications list for 1930 to 1962. Topics include Chapel Hill charters.
Donald B. Hayman and the Institute of Government prepared this pay plan and personnel ordinance for the town of Chapel Hill at the town's own request, transmitted in June 1961. It sets out proposed salaries and rules for municipal officials and employees, and it deals with their legal status and pay. A working document for the history of town government and local public employment.
The town of Chapel Hill's ordinances compiled and revised through December 31, 1960, prepared by the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina. A revised compilation from 1961 is appended.
Milton S. Heath, Jr. prepared this September 1960 revised compilation of the town of Chapel Hill's ordinances for the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina.
Milton S. Heath, Jr. of the Institute of Government compiled this 34 leaf index to the non-ordinance material recorded in the minute books of Chapel Hill. Published in 1959, it gives town researchers a finding aid to board actions that never took the form of an ordinance.
Folded illustrated leaflet from 1939 describing the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill under its director, Albert Coates. The Institute worked with North Carolina public officials on state and local government, through teaching political science in Chapel Hill. Three unnumbered pages on one folded sheet, the kind of item issued to introduce a young program.
Report by the director of the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill, dated November 1936, reviewing the institute's progress and setting out plans for its future. The institute, founded by Albert Coates to train and inform North Carolina's public officials, later became part of the University of North Carolina. 27 pages with illustrations in a narrow format.
Membership appeal for the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill, a folded sheet of seven unnumbered pages with illustrations and portraits, issued by the institute in 1935 under the slogan join today. Topics include the institute and the study and teaching of political science in North Carolina, and it records how the institute presented itself to prospective members in its early years.
A bibliography of the publications of the Institute of Government, issued at Chapel Hill from 1963, with the volumes for 1963 through 1972 compiled by Rebecca S. Ballantine. Topics include North Carolina politics and government bibliography. It is a finding aid for anyone tracing the institute's guidance to state and local officials.
The School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill accounted for its work by fiscal year in this series, printed at Raleigh from 2002. The school trains and advises North Carolina public officials. Illustrated volumes in a wide format, 19 by 26 cm.
A directory of contact persons compiled by the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, naming people at bodies that include the North Carolina General Assembly Legislative Services Office, the North Carolina Bar Association, the Council of State Governments and the National Conference of State Legislatures. The 1997 and 1999 volumes add registered lobbyists and legislative liaisons. Volumes of 28 cm.
Newsletter of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the university unit that trained and advised North Carolina local and state officials. Covers state politics, government and administrative agencies. Includes issues dated 1998. Illustrated volumes, 28 cm.
A recurring catalog of the publications of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the university unit that served state and local government. Issued in narrow volumes from 1983, it works as a bibliography of North Carolina politics and government titles. Some issues appeared under slightly different names.
A distribution list of the books, bulletins and pamphlets the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was circulating in 1981. Because the institute wrote on state and local government, the list doubles as a bibliography of North Carolina politics and government. Issued in volumes at 28 centimeters from Chapel Hill.
The earlier title of the Institute of Government's publications list at Chapel Hill; a note records that issues from July 1989 onward took the fuller name. Topics include bibliographies of state government publications, North Carolina politics and government, and the work of the university's Highway Safety Research Center. Issued in volumes at 23 by 11 cm, recorded here at 1986.
An acquisitions list from the library of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued in volumes from 1982. Since that library collected on state and local government, the list is a running bibliography of North Carolina politics and government. Twenty eight centimeters, published by the library at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions list of the Institute of Government library at Chapel Hill, issued as a numbered serial from 1979. The new series designation ran from number 1 through number 49 and was dropped with number 50. The list covers North Carolina politics and government.
An accessions list from the Institute of Government Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, begun in 1978 and issued in volumes. It concerns North Carolina politics and government bibliography, so each number lists the reports and documents the library took in, a trail to state and local government publications of the period.
A list of the reports and documents coming into the Institute of Government library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by the library from 1978 in five volumes at 28 centimeters. It lists publications on North Carolina politics and government.
Published in 1966, a catalog of the titles the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina was then distributing from Chapel Hill. It is a bibliography of North Carolina politics and government, the subject the institute wrote on. Issued in volumes at 28 centimeters.
Olga C. Palotai's bibliography of everything the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill published between 1930 and 1962, issued by the institute in 1963. It revises and extends an earlier list covering 1930 to 1958 compiled by Catherine M. Maybury. Seventy eight pages with sixteen preliminary pages, covering North Carolina politics and government bibliography.
Course catalogs from the Institute of Government, the unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that has taught and advised the state's public officials since the 1930s. Published by the institute within the School of Government, with courses listed for successive years. Small illustrated volumes, 16 by 23 cm.
Later run of the School of Government's own publications list, this issue dated 2014, giving the titles the Chapel Hill school offered on local government, public administration and state politics. Illustrated volumes of 26 to 28 cm, published by the school at the University of North Carolina.
What the School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had in print in 2009, set out in the school's own publications catalog. The school trains and advises officials across the state, and the listings run to local government, public administration and North Carolina politics. Published in Chapel Hill in volumes of 23 cm.
A 2007 newsletter for friends of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The institute trains and advises local officials across North Carolina.
A newsletter issued by the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the campus unit that trains and advises North Carolina public officials. The run indexed here carries a 2004 date. It concerns periodicals on state administrative agencies and on North Carolina politics and government.
Publications catalog of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the 2002 issue, listing the institute's books and pamphlets on North Carolina politics and government. Issued from Chapel Hill by the Institute of Government within the School of Government, one illustrated volume of 28 cm.
Yearly report of the Institute of Government at UNC Chapel Hill, the university unit that trains and advises North Carolina's local and state officials. Dated 2001, in a series of volumes with illustrations and portraits measuring 23 to 28 centimeters.
John L. Sanders on the Institute of Government in the University of North Carolina, printed as an offprint from Popular Government, volume 59, number 2, for the fall of 1993. The article runs from page 13 to page 19 in this separate, with illustrations and portraits.
Catalog of the publications issued by the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill, printed in a narrow format of 23 by 11 cm. It is a periodical bibliography of state government publications and of North Carolina politics and government. Recorded at 1989 and issued in volumes, it lists what the institute had in print.
Publications the Institute of Government issued between 1980 and 1987, listed cumulatively and continuing an earlier supplement for 1963 to 1979. Printed at Chapel Hill in 1989, twenty-nine pages with eight preliminary pages. It works as a bibliography of North Carolina government publications and of writing on the politics and government of the state.
A slim program announcement for the 1984 executive development course run by the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The course was designed for North Carolina local government officials and employees. Sixteen unnumbered pages in a pocket sized format at 18 centimeters.
Index to the bulletin series of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, covering the administration of justice memoranda and the health law, land records, local finance, local government law, property tax and social services law bulletins as of the January 1983 issue.
Robert L. Farb and Carol S. Burgess describe the Legislative Reporting Service run by the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which reported on the work of the General Assembly for its subscribers. Dated October 1982 and published by the institute at Chapel Hill. Topics include information services and the North Carolina General Assembly.
Commemorative issue of Popular government, volume 46, number 3, winter 1981, marking fifty years of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and of the quarterly itself. Topics include North Carolina politics and government since 1865, local government, public finance, the courts and the administration of criminal justice, each treated historically.
A folder on the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued in 1979 on one illustrated sheet of seven unnumbered pages. It describes the institute, which trained and advised public officials across North Carolina, and lists the members of its faculty.
Criminal justice officials in North Carolina were the audience for this folded list of Institute of Government publications, taking in titles issued through 1978. Six unnumbered pages with an illustration, published by the institute at Chapel Hill. It is a publisher's catalog under the administration of criminal justice in the state.
Overview and update on the Master of Public Administration Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dated November 1978 and issued jointly by the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Government. Thirty-six leaves with illustrations, 28 centimeters. Topics include the graduate study and teaching of public administration in Chapel Hill.
Sixth edition of the code of permanent laws of Student Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, stating the rules in force on 1 December 1974. The Institute of Government prepared it under the supervision of Robert E. Phay and published it in loose leaf form in Chapel Hill.
The Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reporting on itself in 1972. The Institute trains and advises North Carolina public officials, and a list of its publications fills leaves 124 to 169 of the report.
John L. Sanders sets out the legal development of the University of North Carolina in a fifteen leaf paper dated February 1965 and issued by the Institute of Government at Chapel Hill. Topics include higher education and the state in North Carolina, the university system and the Chapel Hill campus. A short institutional history in legal terms.
John L. Sanders's short account of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the university unit that trains and advises North Carolina public officials. Sixteen leaves at 28 cm, issued by the institute at Chapel Hill in 1964, describing its teaching, research and advisory work for state and local government.
Clyde L. Ball's account of the information service the Institute of Government provided to the North Carolina General Assembly, issued by the Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and dated June 1964. It concerns legislative information services in the state, and it documents one arm of the university's work for state government.
A special issue of Popular Government reporting the 1960 convention of the North Carolina Police Executives Association, which met in Chapel Hill. Albert Coates is named as author, and the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina published it in folio format. The work deals with police congresses in the state and with the work of the Institute.
Milton S. Heath Jr. of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina prepared this interim report for the Chapel Hill board of aldermen in January 1959, on the town's charter and its ordinances. Four leaves, 28 centimeters, issued at Chapel Hill. Topics include Chapel Hill charters and municipal ordinances in the town.
Albert Coates's sketch of William Brantley Aycock on his becoming chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, printed by the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill in 1957 and reprinted from the journal Popular Government. A short biographical piece, it concerns college presidents in Chapel Hill and among North Carolina biography.
A statement on the Institute of Government by the legal scholar Roscoe Pound, published in Chapel Hill in 1935 by the institute at the University of North Carolina. It concerns public administration in North Carolina, with relations between state and local government and state politics of the period, the questions the institute was founded to study.
Institute of Government records at Chapel Hill, 1928 to 1980, about 54,000 items in 67.5 linear feet, University Archives at UNC, collection 40067. Founded by Albert Coates, the institute trained state and local officials, and topics include local government in North Carolina, public administration and political science teaching, and the university's public service work.
Newsletter of the School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, issued in Chapel Hill as a periodical on local government in North Carolina. The title points to Albert Coates, who founded the school's predecessor, the Institute of Government, and the run records the school's work with public officials across the state.
Cumulative supplement to the publications list of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which trains and advises officials of North Carolina cities, counties and state agencies.
Publications and related resources of the School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gathered in a catalog. Titles cover local government, public administration and North Carolina politics, the ground the school works in for county and municipal officials. Color illustrated volumes of 26 cm, published in Chapel Hill.
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Books in OCPL’s Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection at the Main Library in Hillsborough whose titles, catalog subjects or descriptions are about this site. The Friends’ recommended starting points are labelled.
A loose-leaf collection of North Carolina's statutes on city planning, redevelopment and regional planning, compiled and annotated by Philip P. Green Jr. for the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill. This 13th edition of 1982 continues a guide the Institute had been issuing since at least 1959.
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