{"id":47701,"date":"2023-05-16T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=47701"},"modified":"2023-05-06T13:54:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T18:54:52","slug":"information-is-at-your-fingertips-with-data-axle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/information-is-at-your-fingertips-with-data-axle\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Is At Your Fingertips With Data Axle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The library subscribes to a wealth of reference databases, including one called Data Axle<\/a>.\u00a0 This product provides access to US information for:\u00a0 standard white pages, new movers, businesses, new businesses, consumer\/lifestyles, healthcare, and job\/internships.<\/p>\n

\u201cData Axle<\/a> offers the most comprehensive and accurate business and consumer databases.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur data covers hundreds of millions of people and households and tens of millions of businesses \u2013 from Fortune 500 companies, to small mom-and-pop shops and work-from-home freelancers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those are official statements<\/a> from the company.\u00a0 But what can you actually use it for?<\/p>\n

Well, to start with, you can attempt to look up old friends\u2019 addresses for Christmas cards.\u00a0 Every year we receive inquiries from patrons who have received return mail from the post office because their old friend has moved, and they are now seeking the updated address.<\/p>\n

If you need to send flowers out of state, you can use it to look for florist in a certain geographical area.<\/p>\n

The phone number for that new bakery that started up last month in the strip mall that use to house that cool clothing store?\u00a0 The new businesses product likely has that.<\/p>\n

Or you can look up your own name to see what information about you is floating out in the world.\u00a0 According to Data Axle\u2019s<\/a> consumer\/lifestyles product I have interests in:\u00a0 women\u2019s apparel, books and magazines, current events, bargain shopping, TV\/movies, and general sports. \u00a0I am a charitable donor, a credit card user, and an internet purchaser.<\/p>\n

\u201cBooks and magazines,\u201d but of course!\u00a0 \u201cGeneral sports,\u201d not so much.<\/p>\n

What might they know about you?\u00a0 Or your friends?<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg.\u00a0 With its consumer\/lifestyle product you can identify charitable donors from whom to solicit funds for your non-profit.\u00a0 Find Quad Cities area dentists, with healthcare.\u00a0 Find the number of employees at your favorite eatery.\u00a0 If you are adept using Data Axle<\/a> you can even draw boundaries on a map and then search for business types within.<\/p>\n

This product is available on the Online Resources<\/a> page of our website.\u00a0 Explore to discover what other cool products we offer!<\/p>\n

Music anyone? \u00a0Try Freegal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Investing?\u00a0 Try Value Line<\/a> and Morningstar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The library subscribes to a wealth of reference databases, including one called Data Axle.\u00a0 This product provides access to US information for:\u00a0 standard white pages, new movers, businesses, new businesses, consumer\/lifestyles, healthcare, and job\/internships. \u201cData Axle offers the most comprehensive and accurate business and consumer databases.\u201d \u201cOur data covers hundreds[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,5249,1],"tags":[6930,6928,5358,6152,6932,6929,6931],"class_list":["post-47701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-databases","category-digital-content","category-reference","tag-addresses","tag-data-axle","tag-freegal","tag-morningstar","tag-onine-resources","tag-phone-numbers","tag-value-line"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-cpn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47701"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47712,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47701\/revisions\/47712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}