MI Library Looks at Reducing Hours, Temporary Closure

The St. Clair County Library System (MI) is faced with financial problems and is looking at severely cutting hours or shutting down for four weeks in order to stay open.

The cuts would mean fewer hours for students to research papers, fewer programs for small children and their parents, less computer time for those without Internet access of their own and fewer hours to browse the stacks for books. Any cuts in hours would reduce the hours that library staffers have to work and possibly could lead to layoffs.