Directories: find people, businesses, and organizations

NCWC Librarians recommend:

Residential Directories_________________________

North Carolina Wesleyan College online directory

http://www.ncwc.edu/Information/directory.asp

Search for students, faculty, and staff at NCWC.

The Ultimate White Pages

http://www.theultimates.com/white/

Search six white page directories simultaneously (Infospace, Dogpile, Whitepages.com, Yahoo, WhoWhere, Switchboard). Also run reverse searches by phone number or addresses.

National People Directory________________________

AnyWho

http://www.anywho.com/wp.html

From AT&T, this site provides both name searching and reverse lookup. Information is taken from printed phone directories.

People Search

http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/

From Lycos, find phone, address, email and web site listings.

Yahoo! People Search

http://people.yahoo.com

Find phone, address, and email listings.

Business Directories_____________________________

ReferenceUSA via RefUSA

The ReferenceUSA database contains, in module format, detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses; 102 million U.S. residents; 683,000 U.S. health care providers; 1 million Canadian businesses; and 11 million Canadian residents.

The Ultimate Yellow Pages

http://theultimates.com/yellow/

Search six yellow page directories simultaneously (Infospace, Dogpile, Switchboard, Superpages, Smartpages, Worldpages). Also run reverse searches by phone number or addresses.

555-1212 Yellow Pages (United States)

http://www.infospace.com/info.go555/redirs_all.htm?pgtarg=ylwi

Easy look up by business name or category. Also offers reverse look up and area code search.

InfoSpace Names, Numers, Now

http://www.infospace.com/info.zip/

Yellow pages searching. Also offers white pages, public records, web search, reverse lookup and email searching.

SuperPages.com Yellow Pages

http://yellowpages.superpages.com

From Verizon, search by keyword or business.

Switchboard USA - Yellow Pages

http://www.switchboard.com

Search by business name, category or keywords. Links to driving directions and maps.

Directories of Government Websites

Browse Government Resources

http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/extgovd.html

The Library of Congress has created a number of gateways for online information in a variety of subject areas. This page provides links to all branches of the federal government, state and local government, and a number of foreign countries as well.

Federal Agencies Directory

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html

This directory from the LSU Libraries allows users to search by keyword or to locate an agency by browsing the structure of the federal government. All three branches of the federal government are represented.