August 11, 2006
Frederick G. Kilgour, Developer of Famed Electronic-Library Catalog, Is Dead
If you have gone into a library and found it easy to look up books in the catalog, or even to find out what a library in another town has on its shelves, you owe a debt of gratitude to Frederick G. Kilgour. Mr. Kilgour, who founded the library-network organization that became OCLC Online Computer Library Center, died last week. He was 92.
Mr. Kilgour's work at OCLC included the development of WorldCat, a catalog that comprises about 70 million items and is used by libraries in
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