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This resource guide was created by Carolyn Weber and last updated 6-30-2009

You May Ask What is a Directory?

A directory is an list that may be alphabetical and is an organized list.

What would you use a directory for?

• Find Company information
• Find Addresses & Phone numbers
• Find Websites
• Find Historical Information
  
• Explore Categories of Information
  

This guide will give you various directories for finding information about people, businesses, government and other information.

Click on the tabs above to navigate this resource guide.

Here are some various definitions of a directory:

An alphabetical list of names and addresses (wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)

A list of names, addresses etc., of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification (en.wiktionary.org/wiki/directory)

A directory is a web site that focuses on listing web sites by individual topics; it is a quasi table of contents. A search engine lists pages, where a Directory (such as Looksmart or The Open Directory Project) lists websites.
(www.sitenexus.com/glossary.asp)

Also known as a search directory. Refers to a directory of web sites contained in an engine that are categorized into topics (www.georgiaseo.net/georgia-search-engine-optimization-glossary-of-seo-terms.html)

A categorised list of websites that is maintained by human editors instead of crawlers. (www.higher-sites.co.uk/seo_glossary.html)

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