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3 unusual facts about Fred Kilgour


Fred Kilgour

The database that Kilgour created, now called WorldCat, is regarded as the world’s largest computerized library catalog, including not only entries from large institutions such as the Library of Congress, the British Library, the Russian State Library and Singapore, but also from small public libraries, art museums and historical societies.

He died in 2006 was 92 years old and had lived since 1990 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Marcia J. Bates

In 2001 she received the Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology.



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