The Rolling Meadows Library Board voted 7-1 Tuesday night to cut its 1998 operating funds to balance its budget as a result of a $50,000 reduction in its requested levy by the City Council.
Among the programs to be cut are the baby-sitting clinic for children, monthly movies and proposed development of a Rolling Meadows home page on the Internet.
Sunday hours will be reduced to three hours from four. Effective this weekend, the library will open at 1 p.m. Sunday and close at 4 p.m., one hour earlier than before.
The library also will postpone offering dial-in access for residents and businesses to its computerized card catalog until 1999.
Additionally, a proposed expansion of the library newsletter, to six pages from four, will be put off indefinitely.
“This is a sad day for the Rolling Meadows Library,” said Carole Medal, executive director of the library. “It is unfortunate when we have to cut any of our programs.”
