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Collation is a fundamental element of most office filing systems, library catalogs and reference books.
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.
Another leading legal figure who took an interest in the development of the library was Judge John W. Edmonds, who “manifested the greatest interest in its welfare, and has contributed most substantially to its development and success.” It was Edmonds who prepared the manuscript on which the first library catalog was based.