Virtual Reference Desk: Directories

For Cleveland directories, go to Virtual Reference Desk: Cleveland.

• Phone & Email
  • Area codes Homepage (Verizon): Helpful area code resources and timesaving online tools.
  • AnyWho: Business and people; address, email, phone, home page, fax, reverse lookup, toll-free numbers, directions.
  • Area Code Lookup: Will provide state if area code is known, and area code if city is known.
  • Cleveland State University Telephone Directory Search
  • International Dialing Codes
  • People Search White Pages: An extensive online white pages directory. Search for people by name, address or reverse phone look up.
  • SuperPages.com : Nationwide Yellow Pages.
  • Whitepages: Telephone directory, reverse address search, business directory.
• Specialized Sources:
  • Associations & Societies:
    • ACLS Member Learned Societies: American Council of Learned Societies is a private non-profit federation of national scholarly organizations dedicated to the advancement of humanities.
    • InfoPlease -- U.S. Societies & Associations: A partial lis of approximately 23,000 national and international organizations found in the Encyclopedia of Associations.
    • Purdue Libraries -- Subject Guides search for Associations or Societies
  • Cleveland Historical Directories:
    • Cleveland (Ohio) - Directories: Results of a Subject search in Scholar showing holdings in the Michael Schwartz Library.
    • CPL Digital Library City Directories: Scanned versions of historical Cleveland, Ohio directories from Cleveland Public Library.
  • Companies:
    For company information visit our Business Research Guide -- Company Information or see directories under Phone and Email listed above. Many of the resources under the Business Research Guide are CSU databases available on campus or by remote authentication and are not primarily used for general consumer information.
  • Government:
    • A-Z Index of U.S. Government Departments and Agencies (usa.gov): Find contact information for U.S. federal government departments and agencies including websites, emails, phone numbers, addresses, and more.
    • City of Cleveland Contact information for the City of Cleveland.
    • Cuyahoga County "I want to Contact" Contact information for County departments and programs
    • Government Information: Michael Schwartz Library Government Information Research Guide.
    • State of Ohio directory (usa.gov): A listing of all state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions.
  • Postal Information:
    • USPS.com -- Find Locations: A tool to locate postal offices, self-service kiosks and collection boxes.
    • Zip Code Look-Up and Address Information (zip +4)