Hey! You're on the Internet!!

Thousands of telephone numbers, post office boxes, and e-mail addresses of people across the globe are also on-line. To find someone not at the University, try these tips, supplied by the River Campus Libraries:

• For someone at another college or university, try the worldwide listing of college and university home pages, http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html.
• With no more information than a name or to find broad background information, use a web searching site such as AltaVista, http://altavista.digital.com. Complete instructions for this easy way to search are provided at the AltaVista home page. AltaVista will search for the person's name in newsgroups, home pages, directories, etc.
• To find someone's e-mail address and verify that it is in current use, try Netfind, http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/netfind.html. By searching with a person's name and location, it is possible to find the full name, correct e-mail address, the last time the person's e-mail account was used, when new mail was received, and whether it has been read.
• For phone numbers and e-mail addresses, try Four 11, http://www.four11.com, which offers e-mail, phone and postal listings, as well as links to the e-mail addresses and home pages of U.S. senators and representatives.
• Switchboard, http://www.switchboard.com, has over 106 residential telephone listings. Users can personalize listings by adding information about their interests or associations.

Or try these other tools for finding people:

• http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/phone.html
• http://www.yahoo.com/search/people/
• http://rodent.lib.rochester.edu/car/general.htm (Look in "Directories: Academic, City, Professional, & Other E-Mail/Phone Resources" section)
• http://www.rrlc.org/search.html#people (Many links for finding people with special interests)

For personalized help finding people, contact any River Campus Libraries reference desk.