12 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- D.C. Library Director Ginny Cooper has formally decided to reduce the operating hours at the city's libraries. The hours are being reduced to save money. The new hours take effect March 2. The revised schedule calls for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library downtown to close at 5:30 p.m., instead of 9 p.m., on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Neighborhood branches will open later and close earlier on weekdays, and kiosk branches will close one day a week. Cooper has said no employees will lose their jobs, but she says the library system can no longer pay overtime to keep the libraries open normal hours.
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