Ever found yourself rushing home from work, or school, or happy hour (maybe?) to grab that book sitting on the hold shelf at your local D.C. Public Library branch before it closes at 6 p.m.? Rush no more!

Starting Monday, Nov. 14, the city’s neighborhood libraries will be open until 9 p.m. four nights a week — a part of a larger extension of the system’s operating hours made possible in the fiscal year 2023 budget. All of the same services will be available — browsing, checking out books, or reserving rooms — just later in the evening, and in some cases, earlier in the morning. According to a spokesperson for the library, the change is a return to the library’s normal operating hours before the pandemic began.

The Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library will also adopt a new schedule starting on Nov. 14 — open Monday-Thursday from 9:30-9 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. On Sundays, the library will open from 1 p.m.-5 p.m. (For a full schedule of new department hours at the MLK Jr. Memorial Library, click here.)

The updated hours are as follows:

Neighborhood Libraries 

Monday-Wednesday: 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
Thursday: 1 p.m.-9 p.m.
Friday-Saturday: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday: 1 p.m.-5 p.m.

Libraries located with a recreation center (Deanwood, Northwest One, Rosedale) 

Monday-Wednesday: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Thursday: 12 p.m.-8 p.m.
Friday-Saturday: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday: 1 p.m.-5 p.m.