Selected Books & Materials from the Municipal Research & Services Center Library
The Muncipal Research and Services Center Library has a number of materials available to Washington city/town employees and officials to borrow at no charge. These items include books, videos, audiocassettes, government documents, contracts, ordinances, pamphlets, articles, and more. The bulk of these materials are created and published by commercial publishing houses, state, county and municipal governments, and professional nonprofit organizations.
The bibliographies listed below are of selected library holdings that contain current and exemplary materials relating to subjects of municipal interest. These items are only one part of our local government documents collection. You can also find documents by using the MRSC Index . Washington city/town officials may request the documents contained in these bibliographies by phoning the MRSC Library at 206-625-1300 or via E-mail mrsc@mrsc.org. If you are not a Washington city/town official or employee, we suggest you contact your local public library or law library for information or research direction.
MRSC Library Bibliographies
Selections from the MRSC Library's Holdings on...[Note: Clicking on one of the links below will take you to a list of documents available on loan through the MRSC library.]
- Agricultural Lands
- test
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Brownfields and Brownfield Development
- Budeting for Local Governments
- Civil Service
- Comprehensive Plans - County and municipal comprehensive land use development growth management plans
- Council/Board of Commissioners Rules of Procedure
- County Assessors
- County Auditors
- County Government in Washington
- Crime Prevention & Community Policing
- Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED)
- Cultural Resources and Historic Preservation
- Design Review
- Economic Development
- Emergency Management
- Environmental Review and the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
- Fire Services
- Forms of Government
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Graffiti Control
- Grants Administration
- Green Building Design
- Housing
- Human Services Administration
- New Acquisitions - the latest materials added to the MRSC Library collection
- Local Improvement Districts
- Newly Elected Officials
- Open Space
- Parks and Recreation
- Performance Measurement
- Personnel (Human Resources)
- Police Administration and Operations
- Public Library Administration
- Risk Management
- Shoreline Management
- Sustainable Development
- Telecommunications
- Tourism
- Traffic Calming
- Transit-Oriented Development
- Transportation
- Urban Forestry
- Videos - a listing of MRSC library VHS videocassettes
- Watershed Planning
- Web Page Design
- Wetlands