Bulletin boards offer regional day trips. Display racks overflow with community service material. In short, libraries have become treasured resources on the information highway of the future. Like other public operations, libraries have struggled in recent years with pressures for economic restraint. These have sometimes been reflected in reduced hours, especially in nonschool periods.
Some libraries have a shorter weekday or two, and most close Sundays in summer.
Station branch, 40B Great Neck Rd. Montauk, P. O. Box 700. Hempstead and Roosevelt have black heritage studies reference collections. Hempstead also houses a large foreign language collection, with books in more than 40 languages. The fine and applied arts collection at the Hewlett-Woodmere Library tops all others.