How to Find Information: Official Publications Available to Purchase

A slim booklet with the title “How to Find Information” is to be received with relish, especially when the subject is official (government) publications. What more complex, scary and panic‐inducing demands can there be for staff – frontline and research – than official publications? And given the facts that the author was an employee of the British Library, and that the BL was also the publisher, I felt confident that here was a winner.

In terms of content, the book is a winner. Starting with a consideration of the nature of “official” and “publications”, the author progresses to Laws and...