TOLL-FREE NUMBERS

Looking for toll-free numbers for businesses? Is their official web site giving you nothing but email addresses and online forms for contacting the company? Is it not listed in the ReferenceUSA or Business and Company Resource Center databases? Well, here are some other options.

Toll-free Phone Book USA. This reference book is owned at Central. It has helped me find numbers no other source had.

Gethuman. This site lists numbers by subject, then alphabetically. There is no search box, but it does gives information on how to get to a person immediately without going through a long voicemail tree.

Hard to Find 800 Numbers. This site also has no search function, just an alphabetical list, but contains some hard-to-find listings such as Amazon and Yahoo! Found via the excellent Lifehacker blog.


--Andrea

New York Times to Stop Charging for Parts of its Web Site

The New York Times is opening up its entire site to all readers, and will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain.

There will be charges for some material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free.

Of course, we can also get to those articles through ProQuest and Historical New York Times.

Here's the story about the change.

- John L.

Nifty Source

Hi all,

Today I discovered a very interesting source at the Queens library. Their link covers access to informational sources in 11 languages (French is included, German is not; Chinese covers Mainland, Hongkong, and Taiwan). The spectrum covers aspects of all of the social sciences. Please check it out!

Thanks,

Barb M.