On February 1, 2008, Archivist of the United States, Allen Weinstein, announced that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will restore extended evening and weekend hours in the research rooms at NARA's Washington, DC, and College Park, MD, facilities.  Effective beginning the week of April 14, 2008, these research rooms will be open Wednesday through Friday from 9 am to 9 pm and Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm.  Monday and Tuesday hours will remain the same, 9 am to 5 pm.  This reverses the October 2006 decision to limit research hours to 9 am to 5 pm on all days except three days per month.

The change was made possible by a one-time federal appropriation of over a million dollars to NARA's 2008 fiscal year budget.