The American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman hosted a training program entitled BookAccess, which was part of a USAID assistance program administered by the Mississippi Consortium for International Development, an association of several universities in that state. The overall goal of the USAID project was to enhance the ability of selected universities in Iraq to perform public health education; one component of this was the improvement of libraries at the University of Mosul and other institutions. The training conducted at ACOR during April 8-12 covered BookAccess, a project developed by California nonprofit Benetech under contract from MCID, which aims to provide libraries with e-book technology. In addition to hands-on training, the Iraqi trainees from the University of Mosul Central Library were provided with electronic equipment and custom-developed software that allows access to electronic books from library terminals across campus while maintaining copyright restrictions.