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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

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Local History

New York Times Hard Cover Non-Fiction Best Sellers

1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Nobody's Girl by VIrginia Roberts Giuffre
The Look by Michelle Obama With Meredith Koop
How to Test Negative for Stupid by John Kennedy
107 Days by Kamala Harris
To Rescue the American Spirit by Bret Baier With Catherine Whitney
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey
Outlive by Peter Attia With Bill Gifford
The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson
100 Rules for Living to 100 by Dick Van Dyke With Tal McThenia
Black Af History by Michael Harriot

New York Times Hard Cover Fiction Best Sellers

The Correspondent by VIrginia Evans
Alchemised by Senlinyu
The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
The Widow by John Grisham
Brimstone by Callie Hart
We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark
The Intruder by Freida McFadden
Mona's Eyes by Thomas Schlesser
Quicksilver by Callie Hart
Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Return of the Spider by James Patterson
Twice by Mitch Albom
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

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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