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Email Directories

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Bethlehem phonebooks.
LOCATION: Fairchild-Martindale Library Help Desk

Cross Reference Directory: Greater Allentown-Bethlehem and Vicinity
(Also Easton-Phillipsburg and Pocono Mountains volumes)
LOCATION: Linderman Library Circulation Desk.

No listing by name, but cross-references by phone number and by address. Warning: information is often quite dated.

Bethlehem, PA Polk City Directory : Including Hellertown.
L-1-REF 917.482 B562pb  (latest edition in Linderman Library;  next to latest in FM-1-REF)
Directory information, including locational lookups (if you have the address, you can look up the person). Includes some occupational data, etc. for selected entries; also has address entries for some unlisted customers.  Other Polk city directories, older editions, are also available in L-1-REF in that area.


Phone directories on the web.

Caution: like the new 'outsourced' long distance information services, online phone directories get their data from the phone book databases they buy. Often, these are out of date, and many times older entries are not removed. (However, if you can't remember your previous address, they are a great place to look!) Some services allow the consumer to update their own phone records.

AT&T Anywho
URL: http://www.anywho.com/
Search for people or businesses, also do reverse lookups. However, residential data is at least 2 years old. Also, divides results up into sets of five.

Superpages by Verizon, Inc.(formerly bigbook.com, and bigyellow.com)
URL: http://www.superpages.com
Searchable directory of American  and some Canadian businesses. Search by name or category, within state or city. Maps and directions. Also includes a People Pages service, which is more up to date than others. (Find Neighbors search, in more info section of each found entry, lets you find people within the same neighborhood as a known person's listing.) Detailed search under yellow pages lets you search businesses within a zip code, area code, etc. (Note: allows keyword searching of names.)

Switchboard
URL: http://www.switchboard.com/
Find addresses and phone numbers for over 90 million people and businesses (search businesses by name or category) Compiled from Residential phone books; may include data 2 or more years old. Users can register and edit their own entries.

The Ultimate White Pages
http://www.theultimates.com/white/
Search a number of different white page services at once.

Yahoo People
URL: http://people.yahoo.com/
Relatively old data.  Expands regular phone listing (initialisms, etc.) into full names.
Includes a good e-mail search, though.

International:
All Nations Telephone Search Engine
URL: http://www.escapeartist.com/global/telephone.htm
Choose the nation you will be calling from, and the nation you will be calling to, and you will not only get the dialing prefix, but links to any online directories the service knows of. (Includes advertising for long distance services.)


Two more ways to find e-mail addresses:

College and University Home Pages.
URL:http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.htm
The best way to find email addresses for students, faculty or staff at another college or university. Connect to the institution's Web site and then look for a campus email directory.  Last updated 1996, though. The InfoDome on General Reference has a category "college information."

Usenet Addresses Service
URL: http://usenet-addresses.mit.edu/
Directory of email addresses based on postings to newsgroups on Usenet (so only individuals who have ever posted a message appear here). Many addresses are out of date.

You can also try throwing the person's name into your favorite search engine, which may find them if they have a web page or contribute to lists or newsgroups that are archived on the web.



LAST MODIFIED 05/10/02 Jennifer Heise