DC's MLK Library Will Remain Open on Sundays

The District’s MLK library to remain open on Sundays. (Washington Post, 9/30/2011)

Excerpt:  The mayor announced Friday that the city had allocated $316,000 to the library system, allowing the King library to keep its Sunday hours during the 2012 fiscal year, which begins today.

Recent savings on the city’s debt service made the additional funding possible, Gray said. “We had some savings, and we are reinvesting it in the library,” he said.

D.C. officials had announced earlier this year it would cut $800,000 from the library system’s budget — to less than $35 million — in response to the city’s ongoing budget woes.