Students are encouraged to return to the library to use the equipment during non-class hours. This class is being offered to all students who have completed the introductory class. Their major concerns included taking time away from internal staff training and use by other library patrons. Some libraries also were concerned about using library resources for students from out of their town or district. However, we still needed to supplement that with transportation allowances and drivers.
Funds are now available to pay for transporting students to and from home, if requested.
How to encourage and keep students in the program is a concern. This issue is still being addressed. Students are returning to the libraries outside of class time to use the equipment. Other libraries are applying for grants to add assistive technology to their facilities because of AccessTech 2000's success, even though they do not have space for a full fledged classroom.