The North West's Provincial Department of Arts and Culture (PoNW) reported that it had been allocated R52.9 million and had a rollover of R1.9 million for the 2009/10 financial year. The PoNW said that the total allocation of R54.8 million for the 2009/10 financial year was allocated according to grant priorities. The grant priorities were reported by the PoNW as follows: capacity building in community libraries (staffing and training); construction, upgrading and maintenance of infrastructure; installing and upgrading information and communication technologies (ICT) for public access; procurement of books and other library materials; and promoting the culture of reading by procuring mobile library buses and conducting reading awareness campaigns through library promotion programmes. The PoNW reported that it spent R41.1 million (75 per cent) as at the end of the 2009/10 financial year.