The University of Colorado at Boulder's libraries will close for three days during the Independence Day holiday weekend in an effort to reduce costs and affect as few patrons as possible.
Budget constraints have prompted University Libraries administrators at CU-Boulder to close the campus library system on July 4, 5 and 6. The holiday weekend closure is the first of what may be a number of service changes for the upcoming fiscal year, officials said.
In addition to other holiday closures, library users can expect streamlined circulation desk service and fewer paper journals with more electronic versions of those journals currently in the library's collection.
The Libraries will continue to improve access to electronic resources from both on- and off-campus and participate in cooperative alliances such as Prospector, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, and other services that bring collections and diverse information to University Libraries patrons.
Regular summer hours, which can be viewed at , will resume July 7.