In September May Nickels announced his proposed 2010 capital budget plan for the City of Seattle, a plan which significantly cut Seattle Public Libraries funding. This proposal would have limited resources and branch hours at locations all over the city. However, our news partner, the Seattle Times, is reporting that the Seattle City Council budget committee recently restored $863,000 from the proposed $2.8 million cut to the 2010 public libraries budget.

That means 11 library branches – Ballard, Douglass-Truth, Lake City, Rainier Beach, Southwest, Beacon Hill, Broadview, Capitol Hill, Greenwood, Northeast and West Seattle – and the Central Library downtown will be able to operate seven days a week. However, the Queen Anne Public Library (and neighboring Fremont), along with 13 other branches were not as fortunate. Those 15 libraries will, as of the new year, only be open five days a week, operating on 35-hour weeks rather than 60.

Currently the Queen Anne Library is open 50 hours a week and closed on Sundays. As of January 1, on Monday and Tuesday the library will maintain the current hours of 1 to 8 p.m. On Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday that library hours will change to 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (before Wednesday and Thursday the hours were 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday). Under the new schedule the library will be closed on both Friday and Sunday.

Get more information on the budget cuts here. You can read more about the City Council’s latest decision here.