Collapsing Multiple Cataloges

New-er to LR. Recently upgraded to 2.0 and read Scott Kelby. Now I realized I have too many catalogues - can collapse into one organized into collection sets.
How do I collapse multiple catalogues into one - retaining the post processing, tagging and collections already defined?
Suggestions?
Cheers, drc

Pick one of them then use the "Import from Catalog" (File emnu) command to add the others to it.

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