Published June 21, 2010

The Globe’s Andrew Ryan reports:

Four Boston libraries targeted for closure at the end of the summer have won a reprieve and will remain open for an undetermined amount of time, according to sources in the Menino administration.

The branches will still be closed, just not as soon. The city has not figured out what to do with the buildings once they’re vacant.

Library officials have said that trimming some branches is not the worst thing the world — and that keeping busy branches open on Sunday, for example, may be a better use of city money. Friends of the BPD are emboldened by the final firefighters contract, which costs the city a few million less than expected after union concessions.