Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 March 2016
This article was written by Hannah Chandler, the Official Papers Librarian for the Bodleian Libraries. Her article looks at how the print collections were managed in the past and how the collections are managed and arranged today in Oxford. It looks at the complex and dynamic environment of official publishing in terms both of print and e-format. Looking to the future, it considers how shared working practices and policy on giving access to and archiving born digital material are benefitting the legal deposit libraries. Finally, the article outlines the breadth of the challenge, not only giving access to information in perpetuity but also making it accessible to the information professional and user.
1 Figures from the Bodleian Libraries annual report 2013/14. http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/191406/BodleianLibrariesAnnualReport13_14.pdf Accessed 20 November 2015.
2 http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/news/2015/aug-24 Accessed 20 November 2015.
3 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111533703/contents Accessed 20 November 2015.
4 http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/law Accessed 20 November 2015.
5 http://www.legaldeposit.org.uk/ Accessed 20 November 2015.
6 http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/flag/flag.htm Accessed 20 November 2015.
7 http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/offpubs/guides/govtguides.html Accessed 20 November 2015.
8 http://ox.libguides.com/cp Accessed 20 November 2015.
9 http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/about-us/history Accessed 20 November 2015.
10 Richard H.A.Cheffins ‘How to find information: official publications’ 2004, p.69.
11 Jane Inman and Howard Picton, ‘Finding official British information: official publishing in a digital age’ 2012 p.30.
12 http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/webarchive/2015/09/ten-years-of-the-uk-web-archive-what-have-we-saved.html Accessed 20 November 2015.
14 Internet users 2015 http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_404497.pdf Accessed 20 November 2015.
15 https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2012/10/16/gov-uk-the-start/ Accessed 20 November 2015.
16 http://ox.libguides.com/op Accessed 20 November 2015.
17 http://www.cilip.org.uk/information-services-group/scoop Accessed 20 November 2015.
18 https://officialpapersuk.wordpress.com/ Accessed 20 November 2015.
19 http://www.ukofficialpublicationsinprint.org.uk/ Accessed 20 November 2015.