City libraries will be spared any further budget cuts, according to Mayor Eric Adams.

“We are holding our city’s harmless in this round to prevent further service reductions. And protect those vital institutions. Libraries are a lifeline to countless communities and the great equalizers,” Adams said in a video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.

On Tuesday, the mayor is set to unveil the city’s 2025 budget plan.

Following November’s mid-year budget cuts, many agencies were expecting a further scale down of services.

All three of the city’s library systems were poised to eliminate Saturday service and shorten operating hours during the week.

Being exempt from another round of cuts should allow libraries to maintain a six-day-a-week schedule.

In November, the New York, Brooklyn and Queens public libraries saw a $24 million budget cut, resulting in branches that were open seven days a week, eliminating their Sunday hours.

“The Brooklyn, New York and Queens public libraries are grateful that Mayor Adams, a longtime champion of our mission, spared libraries from a January cut to our current operating budgets,” the city’s three library networks wrote in a combined statement. “We deeply appreciate the administration’s recognition of the value of libraries and how much New Yorkers rely on them.”

Some New Yorkers are happy to hear libraries will be left off the budget cut list.

“I’m really grateful. I think libraries and books are really important,” said Sarah Speed, a Sunnyside resident. “And I know that in my community, the library here near us gets used by so many folks, by families, by children, and by myself. And I think reading and access to books is really important for our whole community.”

“I am a teacher, so some of my students in whom they don’t have money to buy books. So sometimes they come here to research, to do their research and their homework and everything, just very, very important,” said Regina Ledesma, a Sunnyside resident.

This latest announcement continues. The mayor’s trend and restoring funding to agencies that previously were anticipated to have budget cuts.

In recent days, he has backtracked cuts to public safety, sanitation and education and youth programs.