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Resuscitating the League of Nations' legacy

Ten million pages scanned, five million more to go. The project to digitize the former League of Nations' entire archives by 2022 has hit the two-thirds mark.

Palais Wilson in Geneva, original headquarters of the League of Nations and now home to the U.N. human rights office
Palais Wilson in Geneva, original headquarters of the League of Nations and now home to the U.N. human rights office (AN/Eric Bridiers)

GENEVA (AN) — Ten million pages scanned, five million more to go.

"No small feat for multilateral studies," Francesco Pisano, director of United Nations Library & Archives Geneva, enthused on Monday as the project to digitize the former League of Nations' entire archives by 2022 hit the two-thirds mark.

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