Funding from the grant and from matching funds pay for the licensing that is negotiated with EBSCO, Gale, BrainPOP, Oxford, and ProQuest. The SLED website is hosted by the Alaska State Library (ASL) and technical support is provided by ALN, the UAA/APU Consortium Library, and ASL. The SLED Advisory Group provides leadership in selecting resources and services for the statewide program.

With the discovery search service on SLED, users can retrieve over 196 million records covering a myriad of subjects including medicine, engineering, business, art, philosophy, history, and education. The materials also span different audiences, from elementary school students looking for picture books through college students doing research on scientific topics or adults seeking recommendations for novels to read. SLED also provides comprehensive retrieval in that contemporary as well as historical resources are delivered in the same search. For example, Alaska’s Digital Archives presents a wealth of historical photographs, albums, oral histories, moving images, maps, documents, physical objects, and other materials from libraries, museums, and archives throughout the state. Another indexed local resource is ScholarWorks@UA, the University of Alaska's Institutional Repository created to share research and works by UA faculty, students, and staff. Graduate theses, both master’s and doctoral, along with white papers and research reports from the various research institutes of the university are among the types of sources found in ScholarWorks@UA, and thus available through SLED. While anyone, anywhere, can search SLED only the residents of Alaska have access to the commercially produced publications like scholarly journals, newspapers, and magazines that have been licensed for SLED. With additional funding support from the University of Alaska, the Alaska State Library, and the state of Alaska, SLED delivers information at the cost of less than $1.00 per resident per year. 

SLED offers many services and provides access to an expanding collection of resources. Here are just a few: Educational videos for school children, health information for teens, websites to learn a foreign language, access to a wealth of digital images documenting Alaska’s history and culture, test preparation for high school equivalency, college entrance tests, graduate schools, professional school entrance tests, or civil service exams, online reference books from Oxford University Press, do-it-yourself guides for auto and small engine repair, crafts, and home improvements, genealogy resources for researching family ancestry. In addition, the SLED discovery service will access the high-quality websites selected by the SLED volunteers that are included in the topical research guides. These guides, produced by librarians in Alaska are indexed and findable on SLED.    

The grant also provides funding to offset the mail costs for the Alaska Library Catalog member libraries and provides funding for licensing EBSCO’s discovery service and OCLC’s proxy service.