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The reading rooms at the Library of Virginia will close Saturdays and Mondays to help address job cuts due to the statewide drop in revenue projections announced last month.

The new schedule begins Nov. 14.

The move comes after the library was told it must cut 18 employees — 12 full time and six part time — to offset a state-mandated 5 percent budget reduction.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced last month that a $1.48 billion revenue shortfall likely would cost state employees pay raises they were promised, would lead to layoffs and would leave hundreds of new positions unfunded.

“Suspending our Saturday hours and closing our reading rooms on Mondays is heartbreaking for us, but is necessary,” Sandra G. Treadway, Librarian of Virginia, said in a statement issued Tuesday morning.

According to the library, its budget has been slashed by $3.5 million since fiscal year 2008.

The library said Tuesday that other services will be affected, including cutting training for records officers as well as longer wait times to fill orders for digital images and to make new collections available.