The Fairfax County Public Library will reduce its hours, increase fines and establish new fees as a result of a county decrease in revenues and a 15 percent cut to the library’s fiscal year (FY) 2010 budget. Changes will take effect July 1, 2009.

All library branches, with the exception of Access Services which is located at the Government Center, will close earlier Monday through Thursday; regional branches will be open 1- 5 p.m. on Sunday. Here is the new schedule for community and regional libraries:

The new schedule follows:

*regional branches include Centreville, Chantilly, City of Fairfax, George Mason, Pohick, Reston, Sherwood and Tysons-Pimmit.

Said Library Director Edwin “Sam” Clay III, “The budget cuts are going to be painful in many ways as yet unseen throughout the county, but the library will continue to offer county residents a state-of-art library system and an exceptionally knowledgeable and dedicated staff.”

The Board of Trustees has also approved the following fines and established new fees; the new fees and fines will go into effect beginning July 1:

• The daily charge for overdue materials will be 30 cents for both adult and children's materials.
• A charge of $1 will be assessed to customers who do not have their library cards with them but would like to check out materials, place holds or conduct other transactions.
• A guest pass will be required ($2) for visitors, non library card holders or those who do not have their library cards with them to use the public computers.

New hours and fee information in Spanish.

Fairfax County is committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of disability in all county programs, services and activities. To request this information in an alternate format, call 703-324-8380, TTY 703-324-8365.