Blue book

A blue book or bluebook is an almanac, buyer's guide or other compilation of statistics and information. The term dates back to the 15th century, when large blue velvet-covered books were used for record-keeping by the Parliament of England.[1] The Oxford English Dictionary first records such a usage in 1633.[2] The term has a variety of other meanings.

For other uses, see Blue Book (disambiguation).
See also: White paper and Green paper

Academia and education
  • The Yale College Programs of Study, referred to as the Blue Book[3]
  • Blue book exam, a type of test involving writing an essay, typically into a pamphlet – traditionally blue colored – called a "blue book"
  • Blue and Brown Books, the Blue Book of Lecture Notes for 1933-1934 for Ludwig Wittgenstein lectures

Construction
Chicago Construction Blue Book from 2003
  • The Blue Book of Building and Construction,[4] was a yellow pages-like buyers guide of company information targeted towards commercial construction, first published in 1913. The guide contains information on architects, contractors, manufacturers, suppliers, vendors, and other companies relevant to the commercial bidding and build process. The hardbound book was retired in 2016 and subsequently replaced by a bi-annual regional magazine called the Who's Who in Building and Construction. The prior content of the hard bound book is now completely online and called The Blue Book Network. The company which publishes the information is Jefferson Valley, New York-based Contractor's Register.

Computing and technology

Government and finance
Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope, Blue Book 1877
  • In the Traineeship scheme of the European Commission, internship candidates who pass a preselection are added to a Blue Book, from which the final successful candidates are chosen
  • The publications of the European Central Bank describing the main payment and securities settlement systems in the EU Member States.
  • A publication of the United Nations Protocol and Liaison Service containing listings relating to Permanent Missions to the United Nations.[6]
  • Blue pages, a government telephone directory, published either as part of books for white pages or yellow pages, or separately in a blue book

United Kingdom
  • Colonial Blue Books, yearly collection of details wide range of matters from each colonial governor in the British Empire beginning in 1822[7]
  • Blue Book (Office for National Statistics), published annually by the Office for National Statistics; contains the estimates of the domestic and national product, income and expenditure for the United Kingdom
  • Any official report in the UK of Parliament or the Privy Council, which in the 19th and early 20th centuries were standardly issued in a dark blue paper cover[8]
  • United Kingdom National Accounts – "The Blue Book", of economic activity in the United Kingdom
  • "Treachery of the Blue Books", the name given in Wales to the 1847 parliamentary report on the state of education in the country
  • A weekly digest of signals intelligence reports by the British intelligence agency GCHQ[9]
  • "The Blue Book", genocide scholars' nickname for The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915–1916[10]

United States

Transportation
  • Aircraft bluebook, a digest that covers the price and condition of used general aviation aircraft in the U.S; the Aircraft Bluebook Rating Scale (or "Bluebook scale") is used in the aviation industry to rate the condition of used aircraft.
  • Automobile Blue Book, a route guide to American intercity transportation published between 1901 and 1929.
  • Kelley Blue Book, an automotive appraisal guide from the company of the same name; it is the United States' largest automotive vehicle valuation company.

Other publications

See also

References
  1. Preface, Tennessee Blue Book, 2007-2008 edition, page vii.
  2. "blue book". Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. September 2005. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. "A Message from the Dean of Yale College < Yale University".
  4. "The Blue Book Network of Commercial Construction".
  5. Wegener, Ingo (1987). The Complexity of Boolean Functions. John Wiley and Sons Ltd, and B. G. Teubner, Stuttgart. ISBN 3-519-02107-2., an influential textbook on circuit complexity, commonly known as the "Blue Book". Also available for download (PDF) at the Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity.
  6. United Nations Protocol and Liaison Service (August 2018). "The Blue Book". United Nations Protocol and Liaison Service. United Nations. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  7. "COLONIAL 'BLUE BOOKS'". CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. Archived from the original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  8. Oxford English Dictionary.
  9. Matthew M. Aid and Cees Wiebes, Secrets of Signals Intelligence During the Cold War: From Cold War to Globalization, First Edition (2001), Frank Cass Publishers. ISBN 0-7146-5176-1
  10. James Bryce and Arnold Toynbee, The treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915–1916, Documents Presented to Viscount Grey of Falloden by Viscount Bryce, Uncensored Edition (2000), Gomidas Institute, Taderon Press. ISBN 0-9535191-5-5
  11. Marilyn Griggs Riley (2006). "She Decided "Who's Who in Denver Society": Louise Sneed Hill". High Altitude Attitudes: Six Savvy Colorado Women. Big Earth Publishing. pp. 7–20. ISBN 978-1-55566-375-9.
  12. "WHO/IARC Classification of Tumours". whobluebooks.iarc.fr. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
  13. "MSA Yearbook". MSA website.
  • State Blue Books. American Library Association's Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT)
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