The University of West Florida has gone through two summers now where the four-day work week was offered as an option for employees. While many employees opted for the plan, there were problems. (1) the ten hour day does not extend forward....rather employees were expected to be on the job at 7 am and work to 5:30 with 30 minutes for lunch; (2) because of the nature of a public university, public relations, and need to have people in offices to handle administrative tasks, all offices still had to be open the regular 8-5 hours, even on the 5th day----offices worked this out by having ONE person cover the 5th day on a rotating basis; (3) although originally it was thought that utility costs would be saved....full-time areas like the Library, Computer Services, etc still needed constant on-going cooling....also the number of daily requests for exceptions due to meetings, computer equipment in labs, etc...ran very high and physical plant had difficulty constantly resetting computer-controlled HVAC systems; (4) the impact on users was diffi- cult to assess, but more complaints than praise were received, about offices being closed, or the person assigned to cover, knew nothing more than to answer telephones. One other aspect---our local library eliminated Monday hours to save money and is closed on Sundays. The impact on our university library which IS open on Sundays and Mondays is enormous; I get a constant steady stream of genealogists on Mondays....they spend the weekend getting excited about doing some family research, found the library closed and came to the University. Certainly they are welcome....but the point is that the closing of one facility can impact others. While I have labored to explain the problems....I'm trying to expound on the considerations you need to cover. Who are your clients? Do they need 5 day access? Will cutting cooling, etc. affect the collections? Will cutting your hours lose you "clients" to other institutions? Since many weekends are 3-4 days covering Fri through Monday....would a different day be better to be closed, such as Tuesdays? Dean DeBolt, University of West Florida