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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 |
| Monday | November 11, 2024 | 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
