Wyoming – Economic Diversification, the Creative Economy, and Wyoming Library Builds Business (LBB) Initiatives: Public, Academic & State Librarians in Collaboration with Innovators & Entrepreneurs.

In 2020, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the Libraries Build Business (LBB) grant initiative. Thirteen public library systems were selected to receive a total of $1.3 million to bolster their library’s entrepreneurial outreach. ALA and Google.org supported efforts to build capacity in libraries and library districts. Libraries in turn offered innovative programming, access to e-resources and developed services for local entrepreneurs and the business community. Libraries Build Business (LBB) objective was to identify library-led entrepreneurship models that would help lower-income and/or under-represented entrepreneurs, i.e. women and minorities to start and grow new businesses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]