Library Hours: Holidays and Closures

Holidays and Library Closures 2024

Sometimes our libraries are unavailable due to holidays and events, and sometimes due to unplanned closings such as emergency situations in our buildings. If your library has a planned or unplanned closing, it’s important to spread the word so that we can all help patrons know.

Posting your library’s closures on the shared LibCal calendar and your library’s website is great!

If your library is closed, it is likely:

  • for one of the following holidays (see the table below)
  • for local observed holidays (city or county)
  • due to term breaks or professional development and staff training days
  • or due to an emergency closure (weather, for example)

Delaware Libraries are assumed to be closed on the following dates, though this is subject to change:

Monday January 1, 2024 New Year’s Day
Monday January 15, 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
Monday February 19, 2024 Presidents’ Day (not recognized by all libraries; DDL open)
Friday March 29, 2024 Good Friday (All libraries; DDL closed)
Monday May 27, 2024 Memorial Day
Wednesday June 19, 2024 Juneteenth
Thursday July 4, 2024 Independence Day
Monday September 2, 2024 Labor Day
Tuesday

Monday

November 5, 2024

November 11, 2024

Election Day

Veterans’ Day

Thursday November 28, 2024 Thanksgiving Day
Friday November 29, 2024 Thanksgiving Holiday
Wednesday December 25, 2024 Christmas
Wednesday January 1, 2025 New Year’s Day

 

Return Day, Thursday, November 7, 2024 – After 12 noon for State employees living and/or working in Sussex County

 

Holidays and Library Closures 2025

Holiday Date Day
New Year’s Day January 1 Wednesday
Martin Luther King Jr. Day January 20 Monday
Good Friday April 18 Friday
Memorial Day May 26 Monday
Juneteenth June 19 Thursday
Independence Day July 4 Friday
Labor Day September 1 Monday
Veterans Day November 11 Tuesday
Thanksgiving Day November 27 Thursday
Day After Thanksgiving November 28 Friday
Christmas Day December 25 Thursday