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Its paper slip form in Wolfenbüttel in Leibniz’s time nevertheless remains only one temporary aid, again gathered and bound into the printed catalogs that librarians value more highly than fleeting slips of paper. Only an accident, as the next chapter will demonstrate in detail, will unexpectedly turn this procedure into a permanent order. What remains pivotal, however, is the relation between index and book, which implies both temporary and permanent cataloging. For in contrast to the fixed entries of a continuous list on sequentially linear pages, paper slips can be reconfigured as freely mobile units in ever new arrangements.

The library becomes a bearer of capital, a data bank, lending information as if it were credit. The latter is reliably paid back in the indexing of new writings, whose contents in turn feed on the old ones. In 1716, Leibniz dies and the library at Wolfenbüttel falls into neglect, catalogs are carelessly kept, and the probability of discovering a text with the help of the book catalogs dwindles. In the course of the eighteenth century, finding anything in a library that has inadequate catalogs remains a challenge—not just in Wolfenbüttel, but everywhere else as well.

106 These confiscations require finding a way to tell the nation what belongs to the nation. General stocktaking begins in 1790, stopping a sell-off of the books—mostly for the mere price of paper—and keeping them in public libraries. On October 16, 1790, a committee is formed that devotes itself twice a week exclusively to the question of the mobile goods of the church, particularly what to do with books and art. 107 As proposed by one of its members, Louis-François-de-Paul Lefèvre d’Ormesson, the committee pursues the idea of compiling a national bibliography of all French books on the basis of inventory lists in the individual districts.

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