McAlpine's Nova Scotia Directory – 1868//97 Lovell's Province of Nova Scotia Directory for 1871 Hutchinson's Nova Scotia Directory – 1864//67 McAlpine's Halifax City Directory – 1864-1900 (except for 1880) Holdings Available at Libraries and Archives Canada In addition to the microfilm version of the McAlpine's Halifax City Directories, a hard-copy set of the more recent issues,1960-1999, is shelved in the Microfilm Reading Room for ready access. Please remember that not all of our directory holdings are on microfilm - those still available only in hard-copy format are accessed through the regular Library Card Catalogue in the Archival Reading Room.
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Although city and telephone directories are the most obvious and well-known series within this collection, researchers should also be aware of scattered provincial directories (which attempted to list everyone living in the province), as well as the occasional business directory created for specific communities around the province. The Nova Scotia Archives maintains a substantial collection of published directories, beginning with Nugent's Business Directory for the City of Halifax for 1858-59 (1858) and the first McAlpine's Halifax City Directory (1868) to the most recent set of telephone books for the province. profiling previous occupants of a specific property.determining approximate dates for original house construction.revealing past populations and patterns of urban development.developing individual family residency patterns and profiles.Originally created to list all the residents of a city, all the residents of a province, all the businesses in a specific community, or all the subscribers to a telephone service, back copies of these directories have become invaluable for: The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.Anyone wanting to work with city, town, provincial or business directories at Nova Scotia Archives will find that most of them are now available on microfilm and searchable PDF. And for businesses that host online directories. In 2007, Bill Gates predicted in an address to Microsoft, "Yellow Page usage among people, say, below 50, will drop to zero-near zero-over the next five years." This would be welcome news for the nearly 5 million trees cut down every year to produce the increasingly popular kindling. "It’s just part of technological change that occurs and the move to electronic services, which are more convenient." "We stopped riding horses, too," Rick Watson, a professor in management information systems at the University of Georgia told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Perhaps, the directory's downfall signals American society's acceptance of the transition into the digital era. Southern cities typically printed two books-numbers were segregated by race, like everything else in society temperance groups banned brewery ads. "The most popular printed work ever" has acted as a "barometer of societal change," notes the online magazine. phone directory was likely New Haven’s 50-number listing in 1878, reports Slate. "And many people are now using their cell phones as their sole phone line, and cell phones aren't listed in the residential directory." "Consumers use other resources to get residential numbers, such as storing contact numbers in their cell phones, creating their own personal directories or from community bulletins," Chris Bauer, an AT&T spokesman, told UPI.
(Many more areas offer the less efficient "opt-out" programs.)Ītlanta and Columbus, Ohio, are two of the latest cities halting the automatic delivery of AT&T's directories. A few of these plans, which require subscribers to actually request the books, have already sprung up in parts of Georgia, Ohio and Florida. Now, the company is sponsoring a " Ban the Phone Book" initiative to encourage phone book "opt-in" delivery programs, reports Grist. In fact, less than 16 percent of adults recycle their old or unwanted phone books, according to a survey conducted by WhitePages, a popular online phone directory.
In most states, phone companies are still required to provide the directories to landline customers, even if the tomes might soon make their way to landfills. So why are they still regularly dropped at our doorsteps? However, fewer and fewer phone books today are employed as originally intended-to look up telephone numbers. They can be used to press flowers-or as a booster seat, door stop or laptop desk.
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