Anonymous wrote:Since Covid, my local library has been closed on all Sundays. Since today is a federal holiday, it is closed. And for the record, most library employees are part time so they are not paid on a federal holiday.

I actually looked this up since government jobs (including local government) publish these things. And it looks like part time employees are actually paid for federal holidays.

I went w my son on Sunday and was surprised it was closed too!

I love MCPL but I do find this mildly annoying

Anonymous wrote:MoCo libraries were the last in the area to reopen during the pandemic. We were going to Fairfax and Alexandria which at least had limited in-person hours. MoCo kept the doors shut until summer 2021. The county library system has a $50m budget; why do library staff get a two-day holiday?

Those two things are not related.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe in the past they’ve found that so few people visit the library on the Sunday of 3 day weekends that it’s not worth staffing the libraries. It save the County money.

It’s a county job so I’m sure the employees are being paid regardless of the fact that they are closed.

Maga moron alert

?? It’s a paid holiday. So how does it save them money? The employees are being paid.

I work in a neighboring county, and the Sundays we’re closed are not official county holidays since most county offices wouldn’t be open anyway. (Even things like Easter and, this year, Christmas Eve.) Regular staff who would have been scheduled that Sunday work an extra day during the week or use leave time, and temp staff just don’t get paid.

MoCo libraries were the last in the area to reopen during the pandemic. We were going to Fairfax and Alexandria which at least had limited in-person hours. MoCo kept the doors shut until summer 2021. The county library system has a $50m budget; why do library staff get a two-day holiday?

I was going to go on Sunday, but was glad I checked the website first to see it was closed.

Annoying, but until a year or so ago, very few MC libraries were open Sundays, and now they all are…except yesterday. So I think overall that’s an improvement.

Since Covid, my local library has been closed on all Sundays. Since today is a federal holiday, it is closed. And for the record, most library employees are part time so they are not paid on a federal holiday.

Anonymous wrote:Community centers like librsries should have relevant event son holidays. It's MLK day, not random vacation day.

Lots of events on Saturday and Sunday before MLK day, but employees have the actual Monday off as they should. This is no different than Fourth of July or other federal holidays.

We volunteer on MLK Day. Try that.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe in the past they’ve found that so few people visit the library on the Sunday of 3 day weekends that it’s not worth staffing the libraries. It save the County money.

It’s a county job so I’m sure the employees are being paid regardless of the fact that they are closed.

Maga moron alert

?? It’s a paid holiday. So how does it save them money? The employees are being paid.

Salaries aren’t the only expenses to being open. There’s utilities and supplies, for example.

Move to Delaware there libraries are milk crates of books on a curb

Community centers like librsries should have relevant event son holidays. It's MLK day, not random vacation day.

PG county library system does this as well.

Do you realize how lucky we are to have a library system that’s open full hours most Sundays year round? That we have all these branches open 7 days a week? And this is what you complain about? The library system here is great. So they close Sundays on holiday weekends, bringing them into line with every other county government office. Maybe they want time off, maybe they want to save utilities, whatever. Holy entitlement Batman.

They probably have use studies that indicate it's a good time to give the staff a break. Library management can look at all the different data and does make decisions using the data, believe it or not.

Lots of people in MoCo travel for these three day weekends, and even more participate in MLK volunteer activities. We were out and about today and there were significantly fewer people around in our part of MoCo, and we live on the "affordable" eastern side.