The Orient team saw an important need in their community that was not being adequately met. At the time of receiving their grant, the public library was uncertified, inadequate, and an entirely volunteer operation. The team chose to combine the community's public library with the local school library. There they created a technology center by adding new computers and offering computer classes to the public.

Once the public library found its new home, local tax support, along with school and AARP contributions, helped the project expand to include a video interactive classroom, which helps make the new library one of the better facilities in the state. Other libraries from surrounding small towns are amazed at the facility the team has created.

Thanks to the support, the Orient library is now open until six in the evening. Many students use the facility between four and six to do research for school projects. Team members note improvements in the student's homework and research projects. Also, the library will now be able to hire a former librarian to serve as the summer staff person. Otherwise, the library would have been closed for the summer.

Team members feel that the MIRA project has increased the sense of community self-esteem. Thanks to the MIRA process, the community accomplished a good project that is both tangible and self-sustaining and the team members had a chance to work with other larger communities.

As a side effect to the MIRA process, community volunteer Marilyn Geidel became interested in the digital storytelling concept and other workshop opportunities regarding the project. She plans on using them in her new project, "Bank of Memories. This is the conversion of the old bank building into a informal museum with changing displays of historical Orient, community, and families.