Tomorrow is the last day of Sunday hours at Main Library. The library will be open from noon to 5 p.m.
Budget cuts are putting the squeeze on library hours. Terminating the Sunday schedule will save about $3,000 a week.The Main will become a five-day-a-week operation with a Tuesday-to-Saturday schedule.
Other libraries in the 12-branch system stagger days.
Long Beach funded 31 Sundays for the first half of the fiscal year, October 2008 to May 2009, when the City Council approved the budget.
The goal was to keep the Main, located in the Civic Center on Ocean Boulevard and Pacific Avenue, open on Sundays at least through the end of the traditional school year.
There were hopes of raising money to fund Sundays for the rest of the fiscal year, but the economy worsened instead of improved, and funds could not be found.
For information on library hours, visit http://www.lbpl.org/default.asp
