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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 19 – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 16 – Presidents’ Day
Friday, April 3 – Good Friday, Closing at 3:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 23 & Monday, May 25 – Memorial Day Weekend
Saturday, July 4 – Independence Day
Saturday, September 5 & Monday, September 7 – Labor Day Weekend
Monday, October 12 – Indigenous Peoples’ & Columbus Day
Wednesday, November 11 – Veterans Day
Thursday, November 26, & Friday, November 27 – Thanksgiving
Thursday, December 24 – Christmas Eve, Closing at 3:00pm
Friday, December 25 – Christmas Day
Friday, January 1, 2027 – 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.

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

Services

Featured Services

Local History

New York Times Hard Cover Non-Fiction Best Sellers

Phases by Brandy With Gerrick Kennedy
Strangers by Belle Burden
Stripped Down by Bunnie Xo
A World Appears by Michael Pollan
The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby
Apple by David Pogue
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey
Stand by Cory Booker
Arsenio by Arsenio Hall With Alan Eisenstock
Metropolitans by A. M. Gittlitz
Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! by Liza Minnelli, As Told to Michael Feinstein, With Josh Getlin and Heidi Evans
You With the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate
When the Forest Breathes by Suzanne Simard
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green

New York Times Hard Cover Fiction Best Sellers

Starside by Alex Aster
The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez
The Correspondent by VIrginia Evans
The Keeper by Tana French
Judge Stone by VIola Davis and James Patterson
Upward Bound by Woody Brown
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
Rain of Shadows and Endings by Melissa K. Roehrich
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
Kin by Tayari Jones
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney
The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
The Widow by John Grisham

Get Involved

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.

Library Hours

Monday – Thursday: 10am-8pm
Friday: 10am-6pm
Saturday: 10am-2pm
Sunday: Closed

Contact Us

5 Scofield St.
Walden, NY 12586
(845) 778-7621
Fax: (845) 778-1946
wal@rcls.org

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