. Bell telephone magazine . ably would revealmore quickly the number , on calls involving an indefinitename, or when the name is unknownbut the person calling knows the busi-ness and address of the person whosetelephone number is wanted, the streetaddress record enables the operator toconduct an effective search for thenumber which otherwise might not bepossible. In cities using frequently reprintedbook records, both the alphabeticaland street address records are broughtup to date and reprinted at frequentintervals. Between printing intervals,the alphabetical record is supple-mente
. Bell telephone magazine . ably would revealmore quickly the number , on calls involving an indefinitename, or when the name is unknownbut the person calling knows the busi-ness and address of the person whosetelephone number is wanted, the streetaddress record enables the operator toconduct an effective search for thenumber which otherwise might not bepossible. In cities using frequently reprintedbook records, both the alphabeticaland street address records are broughtup to date and reprinted at frequentintervals. Between printing intervals,the alphabetical record is supple-mented with a printed alphabeticallist known as the daily list is placed on the Informationswitchboard early each morning, andcontains all the new and changed list-ings which have occurred from thetime the alphabetical record went topress up to the close of business theprevious day. In some cities, whereexperience has indicated the need foreven more up-to-date information, 19^1 Providing the Information Service 155. Rotary Records Are Used in This Modern Information Rureau The staggered positions of the desks, and the floor racks between pairs of girls, make allrecords readily available to each operator in this moderate-sized Information bureau new telephone files are maintainedfrom current connections, so that if acalling person indicates the telephonenumber desired is one connected thismorning, the operator is usually ableto obtain it for him. Prior to the introduction of fre-quently reprinted records, in somecities the alphabetical record used byInformation was the regular customerdirectory, which was supplementedby a bi-weekly alphabetical addendumand a daily alphabetical street address record was supple-mented in some cases by a bi-weeklyaddress addendum, but was reprintedonly as frequently as the customer di-rectory. This arrangement of recordsadversely affected the time intervalinvolved in locating telephone listings,because operators frequently fou
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