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William Alanson Borden (4 April 1853 – 31 November 1931) was an American librarian and an organizer of city libraries in India who was an innovator of cataloguing systems. He was invited to Baroda by its ruler Sayajirao Gaekwar III who had been impressed by the public libraries at New York to organize a system of public libraries, the first in India.