Keep libraries open

 

Hours = Access

 

Levy funding for open hours:

 

$26.9 million (about $3.8 million annually) 22% of levy

 

• Restores 6,551 open hours per year
• Eliminates annual one-week shutdown of entire Library system
• Adds Sunday hours to 15 branches
• Restores seven-day-a-week service at the Columbia and Northgate branches
• Restores on-site reference staff at eight branches
• Restores 1,613 hours each week of free Internet access, systemwide
• Addresses cuts in the 2013 budget
• Adds Central Library staff to assist with computer literacy
• Increases security staff
• Adds a librarian in the popular Seattle Room at the Central Library

Sundays are Special at the Library

Mayor Mike McGinn and Councilmember Richard Conlin joined City Librarian Marcellus Turner on Jan. 6 to celebrate extended hours at the Columbia Branch thanks to the August 2012 passage of the Library levy.