Monterey Public Library Budget and Services Update – 7/9/09

The City Council has approved the City of Monterey budget for July 1 2009 through June 30 2010. 

By special Council action, supported by one-time Neighborhood Improvement Program (NIP) funds, the following services and programs have been restored:

• The Youth Services Librarian and Youth activities and programs
  

• Sunday open hours (1 to 5 p.m.) and a seven-day-week Library schedule, resuming Sunday, July 19
  

• Three part-time staff positions are no longer to be laid-off; one full-time reduced position will be at 30 hours instead of 20 hours

Other information

• 30% cut to budget for books, databases and other Library materials; Friends of the Monterey Public Library fundraising events essential to support growing community demand for Library books and other materials
  

• Friends also sponsoring limited restoration of three-program “Stories for Adults” series and two adult poetry workshops
  

• Interlibrary Loan service suspended indefinitely beginning July 15, 2009.  Items that are in the  catalog that Monterey Public Library shares with Pacific Grove may continued to be borrowed, as usual.

For more information please contact Kim Bui-Burton, Library Director at 646-5601 or buiburto@ci.monterey.ca.us

Posted:  July 9, 2009
For immediate Release
Media Contact:  Jeanne McCombs
Phone: 831.646.3949