HAWTHORNE : Volunteers Will Help Library Extend Hours
Volunteers will help the county’s Wiseburn library here to stay open three days a week instead of two.
Under a program started last week, 24 volunteers have signed up to work regular hours shelving books, organizing magazine racks and examining materials for damage. The donated work has allowed the county-run library to open on Tuesdays from 1 to 6 p.m.
The program is patterned after one used at the Lomita Library.
“This is particularly important work because of our budget situation,” said Sandra Duncan, a county library manager. “The community is responding to the library’s cries for help.”
Volunteers must agree to work a fixed number of hours, generally eight a month.
But efforts to extend hours at the libraries may end as early as July because of budget problems. A $9-million shortfall may temporarily shut 49 of the county’s 87 libraries, officials said.
“It doesn’t look good for us, but no one knows for sure what will happen,” Duncan said.
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