Google’s ever-expanding book-scanning project has recruited its first French-language library, the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne, Switzerland. The search engine plans to digitize many of the library’s most influential holdings in Swiss and French literature, including volumes by Honoré de Balzac and Victor Hugo. Also in line to be scanned: the personal library of Vilfredo Pareto, a 19th-century sociologist and economist who conducted seminal studies of income distribution.
The Lausanne library becomes the fifth European institution to sign on with Google’s digitization project, joining the Bavarian State Library, the University of Oxford, the National Library of Catalonia, and the Complutense University of Madrid. —Brock Read
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