This document is a project application from the Asian Community Library for continued funding through the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA). LSCA granted about $300,000 for the first two years of the Asian Community Library; the Library was asking for $50,000 more.
The Oakland Public Library is listed as the applicant, with both Judy Yung and Lee White as contacts; the grant application showcases, then, how the Asian Community Library was incorporated as a city institution and project.
Notably, the application emphasized how the circulation of the library had doubled, not how the library fostered community within the Asian- and Asian-American communities of the East Bay. Those who wrote the application perhaps anticipated that the grant reviewers would be more likely to value the volume of traffic in the library rather than its project of community education and formation.
