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This grant program provides school libraries in primary and lower secondary education with access to new Norwegian books through direct distribution. The program purchases and distributes culture fund books aimed at children and young people to school libraries. Elementary schools receive books for grades 1-10, while secondary schools receive books for grades 5-10. The books distributed are either enrolled in the automatic purchase scheme for new Norwegian fiction for children and young people, or purchased by the Arts Council through selective purchase schemes for fiction, non-fiction, comics, and translated literature. The grant is provided in the form of books rather than monetary funding, and comes in addition to the school's existing library budget. Schools are required to receive and disseminate all books included in the program until the current funding period ends in 2026, and must retain the books for at least five years.

This grant supports literary projects for books in Norwegian, Sami, or national minority languages (Kven, Romani, and Romanes). The purpose is to enable the initiation, development, and accessibility of projects that increase breadth and quality in the literary field in Norway. Literary publications can be in written, oral, or digital form. The scheme supports various activities including editorial initiatives for translated literature, critical text work on Norwegian or Sami classics, recruitment of literary voices and diversity expansion, translation to Norwegian of literary works by minority language authors residing in Norway, translation of works written in Sami languages, literary projects in national minority languages, literary projects by or for persons with disabilities, distribution of minority language literature and accessible literature, and publication of non-fiction literature on literary themes. The grant does not typically provide full financing, and applications are evaluated by an expert committee that considers artistic and professional content, project quality, relevance to the scheme's purpose, and feasibility.