CEBU CITY, Philippines—Night owls: time to flock to the public library again.
This as the Cebu City Public Library and Information Center, or simply the CCPL, is back to its 24/7 operations starting Tuesday, July 23, 2019.
The good news was announced in CCPL’S Facebook page.
“I’m grateful that we’re back to 24/7 (operations). Thanks to the present administration especially City Mayor Labella for his support. I’m inviting everyone to visit us and make use of this opportunity, ” says Rosario Chua, CCPL chief librarian.
Since July 1, Monday, the 24 hours, 7 days a week operation of the CCPL was temporarily suspended because of the lack of manpower
READ: Lack of manpower: Cebu City library to temporarily open for only 16 hours
The CCPL has been operating from 8 a.m. to midnight since then.
Chua says they lost three staff support causing them to temporarily stop their 24/7 operations.
“Now, we have seven new staff support that will help us carry out the services in the 24/7 operations of the library,” Chua tells CDN Digital.
On Tuesday morning, July 23, CCPL announced on their Facebook page that 24/7 operations is back.
Chua said they have been receiving comments and queries from regular visitors of the library as to when the 24/7 operations will resume.
As of July 23, 12:05 p.m., the post reached 42 comments, 98 shares and 252 reactions. / celr