It’s a business incubator. It’s a tech hub. It’s a knitting school. It’s a free-speech zone. It’s a homelessness help center on wheels.
It’s a … library?
Yes, indeed.
Thanks in part to grants administered by the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office, local libraries are developing an increasingly wide range of identities.
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Grants fund more than books
The federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) distributes funds from the national Institute of Museum and Library Services to states, which use the money to support special projects in local libraries.
In Arizona, the LSTA grants are managed by the Arizona State Library, which is overseen by Secretary of State Michele Reagan.
In 2017, Reagan’s office distributed $800,000 in LSTA funds to 56 programs across the state. The grants ranged in…
