CHANGES have been announced to the opening hours at Darlington's Crown Street and Cockerton libraries.
The changes follow a survey to assess whether the libraries were meeting visitors' needs.
At Crown Street on Wednesdays the lending library will now close at 5pm instead of 12.30pm and the reference library will also close at 5pm instead of 7pm.
Friday opening hours will be 9.30am to 5pm instead of 9.30am to 7pm and on Saturday the opening hours have been extended from 9.30am to 5pm, instead of finishing at 4pm.
The Cockerton library will open at 9.30am instead of 10am and close at 7pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
On both Wednesdays and Saturdays opening hours will be from 9.30am until 1pm.
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