Basic equipment includes workstations, printers, and routers. Larger libraries may receive somewhat more. Software includes Windows NT, office software and anti-virus programs, reference and children's titles, and Internet tools. Training and technical assistance to library staff members is as important in the project goals as equipment and software. Sustainability, seed project, leveraging, and partnerships.
Sustainability is a key goal in the project.
GLI does not want to leave behind equipment that will not or cannot be used. The project will assure sustainability through training, with emphasis on partnerships between GLI and grant recipients, between grant recipients and their communities, and within the library. Funding will also serve as a catalyst for government, businesses, foundations, and individuals to support the public library as an institution and to make a priority of providing broad public access to information technologies. As long as the library buys equipment that GLI has established as standard for the project, technological trouble shooting, repair, and upgrades will be available for up to three years. A partnership of organizations in Tucumcari which include the Schlientz Memorial Library, the New Mexico Coalition for Literacy, the public schools, and the Rotary Club, has targeted children who have low reading skills for a special project using computer-based literacy education.