The MaintainIT Project, a project of our mother organization, TechSoup, is a three-year project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that is working with public libraries to identify best practices of technical support for public computers.

The Project works with libraries throughout the U.S. and Canada, while focusing on libraries in the 18 states that are receiving the first round of hardware upgrade grants from the Foundation.

The MaintainIT Team have taken the Internet Archive's Bookmobile on the road this month to visit libraries in rural Northern California. Stay tuned to their blog for photos, videos, and stories from libraries doing the hard work of keeping public computers available.

If you live in California, the rest of their tour schedule is below. A printable version is available here. For more info. contact Sarah Washburn at swashburn@techsoup.org.

Friday, September 7th
Orland Public Library
333 Mill Street
Orland, CA 95963

Thursday, September 13th
Humboldt County LIbrary, Main Library
1313 3rd Street
Eureka, CA 95501

Friday, September 14th
Humboldt County Library, Hoopa Branch
Loop Rd. & Orchard St.
P.O. Box 1407
Hoopa, CA 95546
And
Blue Lake Branch
111 Greenwood Ave.
Blue Lake, CA 95525
And
Oysters and Ale, Wi-Fi Fundraiser
for Humboldt County Library
Marina, Near Main Library
Bookmobile as showcase!

Saturday, September 15
Mendocino Public Library, Willits Branch
390 East Commercial Street
Willits, CA 95490-3202
And
Ukiah Main Library

Photo: MaintainIT Crew before driving to Plumas County Library