HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) -- Dauphin County library leaders face the same significant funding cuts as their peers elsewhere but are hoping they can manage to cut costs without cutting hours and other services at branches, the system's leader said Thursday.

"Funding is always an issue for libraries, but we have not discussed reducing hours," Ryan McCrory, the Dauphin County Library System's director, said Thursday.

Still, "everyone's in the same boat right now," McCrory said, because of federal library funding cuts as well as the ongoing state budget stalemate. McCrory is optimistic Dauphin can manage to trim enough spending, through measures such as renegotiating vendor contracts, to avoid bigger cuts.

"We're always looking at where we can cut corners before we cut services to the public,"

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