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Your favorite free databases
8:32 PM EDT 5/11/08
I thought it would be interesting to post some of our favorite free online databases that we use regularly for reference work.

One that I use regularly is Charity Navigator:
http://www.charitynavigator.org/

I use it in my personal life before I donate and I have used it dozens of time at the reference desk.

I also love Who's Alive and Who's Dead, because sometimes you just don't know:
http://www.whosaliveandwhosdead.com/

Share some of yours!
RE: Your favorite free databases
3:11 PM EDT 8/15/08 as a reply to Janie Hermann.
Census.gov has saved my bacon on the reference desk more than once. Lots of valuable and hard-to-find-elsewhere data. One tip, though. You have to be willing to dig sometimes, depending on the information the patron is after.