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Library Hours and Closings

Library Hours:

Monday-Thursday: 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Sunday: Closed

2025 Closings:

January 1 – New Year’s Day
Monday, January 20 – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 17 – Presidents’ Day
April 18 – Good Friday, Closing at 3:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 24 & Monday, May 26 – Memorial Day Weekend
Friday, July 4 – Independence Day
Saturday, August 30 & Monday, September 1 – Labor Day Weekend
Monday, October 13 – Indigenous Peoples’ & Columbus Day
Tuesday, November 11 – Veterans Day
Thursday, November 27, & Friday, November 28 – Thanksgiving

Wednesday, December 24 – Christmas Eve, Closing at 3:00pm

Thursday, December 25 – Christmas Day
Thursday, January 1, 2026 – New Year’s Day

Directions
​Traveling North on Rt. 208 (from I-84), turn left on Scofield St., up a steep hill and down, the library is about 3 blocks on the left.

Traveling West on Rt. 52 Main St. (from Newburgh), turn left on Orchard St. (1st street after the traffic light), you will be facing the library entrance (about one block down Orchard).

The library/police station/municipal building are located in a triangle formed by Scofield, Orchard, and Walnut Streets.

Member Affiliations
Ramapo-Catskill Library System (RCLS)
Orange County Library Association (OLA)
Hudson River Valley Heritage (HRVH)
Southeastern NY Library Resources Council (SENYLRC)
Contact Info
Ginny Neidermier, Library Director
Beth Balogh, Children’s Services
Abby Williams, Teen Services
Alyssa Masotto, Librarian

Phone: (845) 778-7621
Fax: (845) 778-1946
Email: wal@rcls.org

Local History

Citizen Herald Archive
Jacob T. Walden House 
Local Yearbooks

June 2025 Calendar (Click for more details)

Drop-in Lego Club (Click for more details)

Felting with Christine Adams (Click for more details)

End of School Year Annual Chalk Walk (Click for more details)

Brewing Your Own Organic Fertilzer (Click for more details)

Open Tabletop Game Time (Click for more details)

Annie Mardiney: Wild Mountain Birds (Click for more details)

Summer Reading 2025 (Click for more details)

Summer Toddler Storytime (Click for more details)

Summer Baby Rhyme Time (Click for more details)

Battle of the Books 2025 (Click for more details)

Music in the Grove (Click for more details)

Walden Knights Chess Club (Click for more details)

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As a member of the Ramapo-Catskill Library System, the JLPL has access to many online resources and databases including Magazines, Encyclopedias, Language Aids and Genealogy Tools. Access to all of these resources are paid by the Library. For more information and to access the entire list of Databases, use the links below.

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Come visit us at the library to take advantage of many useful resources beyond our vast media collection. Need a library card? Museum Passes?

We also offer Faxing, Photocopies, Free WiFi, Computers to access the Internet, Designated Children’s Computers, and Out of System loans.

We even have Walden’s original newspapers online. Click Here for access to digitized content.

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    Staff Picks

    Here are a few of our favorite books. For a bigger list of popular books, visit our Catalog.

    This week's NYT Fiction Best Sellers List

    Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
    The First Gentleman by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
    Never Flinch by Stephen King
    Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
    Nightshade by Michael Connelly
    Badlands by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
    The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
    Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts
    My Friends by Fredrik Backman
    The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
    Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
    The Perfect Divorce by Jeneva Rose
    The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark
    James by Percival Everett
    Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

    This week's NYT Nonfiction Best Sellers List

    How Countries Go Broke by Ray Dalio
    This Dog Will Change Your Life by Elias Weiss Friedman With Ben Greenman
    A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern
    Trump's Triumph by Newt Gingrich
    Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
    The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
    So Gay for You by Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig
    Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
    Free Ride by Noraly Schoenmaker
    How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast
    Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
    Big Dumb Eyes by Nate Bargatze
    The Disenlightenment by David Mamet
    Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
    Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster by Gerri Willis

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    The Josephine-Louise Public Library circulates more than 84,000 items per year to residents of the Village of Walden and many residents of the Town of Montgomery. The library receives over 61,400 visits a year, and conducts more than 40,400 reference transactions. Join us at the Library and support our goal to provide materials and services to help meet the diverse educational, professional, and recreational needs of the community.

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    Friday: 10am-6pm
    Saturday: 10am-2pm
    Sunday: Closed

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    Walden, NY 12586
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    Fax: (845) 778-1946
    wal@rcls.org

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