Plans to Close Copley Square Facility on Sundays Gets Icy Reception

Boston Public Library

Library patrons pan plan to close Sundays. (Boston Globe, 3/28/2011)

Excerpt: College students fleeing campus libraries, where chatty pals stand in the way of a polished term paper. City residents showing off a historic landmark to friends visiting from out of town. Job seekers down on their luck. They all come to the same place on Sunday afternoons from October to May — the central facility of the Boston Public Library in Copley Square. But next fall, they may have to look elsewhere, after the library’s Board of Trustees approved a budget proposal last week that calls for closing the Copley library on Sundays, as part of a larger effort to keep neighborhood branches open and avoid layoffs.

“That’s terrible,’’ said Jojo Jacobson, 27, of Jamaica Plain, who brought friends visiting from Nevada to the Copley facility yesterday to take in its ivory staircases, arched ceilings, and rare books. Jacobson, an English tutor at Roxbury Community College, said she encourages her students to visit the library on Sundays because they have full-time work during the week.

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