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The article discusses the Salt Lake City Public Library (SLCPL) in Utah and its proposal to keep its main branch open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Topics include SLCPL executive director John Spears' plans to offer overnight programs such as movie screenings, book discussion groups, and computer classes, private funding to cover the cost of staff, security, and programming for the extended hours, and concerns of community members regarding SLCPL becoming a refuge for homeless persons.

The article reports that Vincent Gray, the mayor of Washington, District of Columbia, endorsed an initiative to renovate the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, as well as an initiative to finance the opening of regional libraries on Sundays, in his March 27, 2013 budget introduction. Topics include library attendance and the responses of politicians including the Councilman Jack Evans.

The article announces that in April 2013 the Houston Public Library in Texas will restore services on Saturdays to 14 neighborhood libraries for the first time in three years, bringing the number of branches open Saturdays to 41, while the Central Library will be open seven days a week.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "The New Normal" by Michael Kelley in the January 2012 issue about public library hours.