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The International City/County Management Association (ICMA), with the help of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is offering $500,000 in grants to support "compelling new projects" at public libraries. While the examples provided by ICMA--services for teen and immigrant residents and efforts involving recycling and public safety--may not be novel to everyone, the new grants aim to move libraries toward the center of city managers' concern.
An ICMA survey in November 2007 indicated that less than half of the responding local government managers reported that the library director was a member of the local government management team; only 41 …