Following criticism from the head of the French National Library about Google’s plan to digitize major library book collections (those that are out of copyright, we are told), France’s Jacques Chirac has asked the Libary to devise a plan to put French and European works on the Internet. The story is here. Looks like more French-English culture wares. I wonder how long it will take to see any of these digitization projects to fruition. As Google acknowledges, it’s not something that happens overnight. I also wonder if countries other than France feel slighted by Google’s library Print initiative and will similarly order their national libraries to digitize.