blue book

Blue book or Bluebook is a term often referring to an almanac 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 the United Kingdom.^[1]

Examples include:

U.K. politics and government

• Treachery of the Blue Books, an 1847 Welsh parliamentary report on the state of education in the country.
• A weekly digest of signals intelligence reports by the British intelligence agency GCHQ.
• Annual reports produced by the governments of each crown colony and protectorate of the British Empire.
• Blue Book (Office for National Statistics), is published annually by the Office for National Statistics, and contains the estimates of the domestic and national product, income and expenditure for the United Kingdom.

U.S. politics and military

• Blue Book (FCC), a nick name for a report on Public Service Responsibility for Broadcast Licensees issued on March 7, 1946 by the Federal Communications Commission of the United States.
• Blue Book (United States Marine Corps), a bulletin listing the lineal precedence and seniority of Marine Corps officers.
• Project Blue Book, a U.S. Air Force study on UFOs

• Various almanacs from U.S. state governments:
  • Oregon Blue Book
  • Tennessee Blue Book
  • Wisconsin Blue Book
• The Blue Book of the John Birch Society, a transcript of the founding meeting of the John Birch Society

Media

• Healthcare Blue Book, a website with U.S. healthcare prices

Computing and technology

• Blue Book specification, the name of one format from the Rainbow Book standards for compact discs, defining the Enhanced CD standard
• A set of telecommunications Recommendations issued by the International Telecommunication Union Standardisation Sector in 1988
• A common name of the book Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation, and any virtual machine implementation based on Smalltalk
• Blue Book protocol, the file transfer protocol of the Coloured Book protocols
• The Java Virtual Machine specification
• Blue Books, spacecraft data and telemetry recommendations made by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems

Transportation

• The nickname of the annual publication of the UK's Motor Sports Association
• 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.
• Kelley Blue Book is an automotive appraisal guide from the company of the same name
• The Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair

Jewelry

• Blue Book is the Tiffany & Co. catalog first published in 1845. It is still being published today.
• The World Jewellery Confederation Blue Book is a three-part publication outlining terminology, classification and ethical guidelines (i.e. disclosure of treatments and synthetics) for coloured gemstones, diamonds and pearls.

Science

• A publication of the United Nations Environment Programme listing endangered species
• Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, a compilation of IUPAC recommendations

Other publications

• The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, the most widely followed authority for legal citation formats in the United States.
• Blue Book (magazine), published from 1905 to 1975.
• Blue Book (racing), a publication of The Jockey Club.
• A common name of the Handbook of United States Coins by Richard S. Yeoman.
• Little Blue Books, a series of 20th century publications by the Haldeman-Julius Publishing Company.
• The publications of the European Central Bank describing the main payment and securities settlement systems in the EU Member States.
• The Blue Book - Construction and Building

See also

• Blue book exam, a type of test involving writing an essay

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