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The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, in partership with UNESCO, the Indian National Centre for Science Information (NCSI) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has released a free CD-ROM based training module on digitization and digital libraries "designed to provide the conceptual and practical bases for the digitization of collections, and the creation and provision of access to digital libraries." The 31 lessons cover copyright issues, electronic formats for text and images, metadata and subject indexing, as well as overvie