The open shelf collection in the Newsroom in St Pancras includes catalogues and newspaper bibliographies such as the Waterloo Directories and the Newsplan Reports.
Historic press directories include Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory, Benns Media Guide and Willings Press Guide; newspaper indexes; and a collection of monographs on newspaper history and the newspaper industry such as the multi-volume The History of The Times.
The Newsroom reference collection is shelved according to the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme and is listed in the library's interim catalogue.