With the Steel Town Love special event taking place on Saturday, July 11, the Fourth Floor at Central Library will be closed for set-up all day on Friday, July 10. Makerspace and Newcomer Learning Centre will remain open.
The Fourth Floor will reopen its study spaces on Sunday, July 12, Noon-5 pm.
Due to software maintenance, public computers at Turner Park will not be available from 9am-8pm on Wednesday, July 8. Print to Go, photocopying, scanning and Makerspace services will be available. Thank you in advance for your patience.
The accessible washroom at the Parkdale branch is not working. We aim to get it fixed quickly.
As of July 1st, partner library Members can no longer borrow HPL Express items via Overdrive. More to Borrow partner libraries will be offering Lucky Express (Skip the line) titles to their cardholders only. This will help manage wait times for popular titles. Lucky Express is a collection of in demand titles with a seven-day loan period, available with no wait.
Our partners will still be able to borrow titles from the rest of our collection.
www.hpl.ca/more-to-borrow
Barton Branch is closed Tuesday, July 7, 9am-3pm due to a scheduled water shutdown for City construction work in the area.
The What's Happening Guide has been retired and replaced with different communications channels and tactics. You can find the new Summer Reading Flyer here. Watch for future communications updates.
Sunday hours return to Central Library. Beginning July 5, Central is open Noon to 5pm. Dundas, Red Hill, Terryberry, Turner Park, Valley Park and Waterdown branches are also open Sundays, 1 to 5pm. hpl.ca/hours
The accessibility door at Carlisle Branch is not working. We aim to fix it quickly.
After Hours Study Hall is not available in July and August. Hours will resume Tuesday, September 8. www.hpl.ca/study-halls
The entrance to the Barton Branch's parking lot off Milton Street is currently inaccessible due to construction. Please use the alley entrance off Fullerton Street.
Please be aware of online phishing attempts impersonating Hamilton Public Library and Library Staff. HPL does not solicit paid freelance opportunities through social media or other messaging applications. HPL does not request personal or banking information through social media or require financial compensation when reviewing job applications. Please report phishing schemes to communications@hpl.ca. If you think you are a victim of fraud, please call the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at 1-888-495-8501.
Bookmobile Service Modifications
Mon Jul 6:
Special Event - All Stops Cancelled
Wed, July 8:
Helen Detwiler Cancelled
Thurs, July 9:
Rockton Cancelled
Millgrove Cancelled
Bennetto Cancelled
Kinsmen Cancelled
January 7, 1939 - December 28, 1940
January 7, 1939 Peeps Into the Past. Forty-Nine and Following Years(#62)
January 14, 1939 " Fruit, Finance and Fighting (#63)
January 21, 1939 Roman Imperialism (#1)
January 28, 1939 " (#2)
February 4, 1939 Peeps Into the Past. War Clouds of the Sixties (#64)
February 11, 1939 Debtors of Other Days
February 18, 1939 Peeps Into the Past (#65)
February 25, 1939 " The Ambassador Enquires (#66)
March 4, 1939 Shy Man of Science (#1)
March 11, 1939 " (#2)
March 19, 1939 Peeps Into the Past. Several Celebrities (#67)
March 25, 1939 " The Pioneers (#68)
April 1, 1939 " Tom Talbot (#69)
April 8, 1939 " XIII Battalion Received Colours, 1863 (#70)
April 15, 1939 " Taxes, Tobacco and Temperance (#71)
April 22, 1939 " Afternoon of April 22, 1845 (#72)
April 29, 1939 The Band Refugees
May 6, 1939 Nathaniel Pettit, U.E. (#1)
May 13, 1939 " (#2)
May 20, 1939 The Van Everys of Flamboro
May 27, 1939 The Old Mill and Its Builders
June 3, 1939 An Armentieres Adventure
June 10, 1939 Peeps Into the Past. Some Seventy Years Ago. (#73)
June 17, 1939 Billy Green the Scout
June 24, 1939 An Editor's Diary
June 30, 1939 The Dream of Dominion Day
July 8, 1939 An Editor's Diary (#2)
July 15, 1939 " (#3)
July 22, 1939 The Stage (#1)
July 29, 1939 " (#2)
August 5, 1939 " (#3)
August 12, 1939 Looking Backward
August 19, 1939 Indian Tales. Thayendanegea (#1)
August 26, 1939 " (#2)
September 9, 1939 Old Time Letters. Peter Jones Correspondence (#1)
September 16, 1939 " (#2)
September 23, 1939 " (#3)
September 30, 1939 " (#4)
October 7, 1939 " (#5)
October 14, 1939 " (#6)
November 4, 1939 Golf and Golfers (#1)
November 11, 1939 " (#2)
November 18, 1939 " (#3)
November 25, 1939 Jean Baptists Rousseau (X) (#1)
December 1, 1939 " (#2)
December 9, 1939 " (#3)
December 16, 1939 The Hungry Year
December 30, 1939 Loyalists of Long Ago (#1)
January 5, 1940 " (#2)
January 13, 1940 From Colonel Gourlay's Files (#1)
January 20, 1940 " (#2)
January 27, 1940 " (#3)
February 3, 1940 Wanted: An Historical Society (#1)
February 10, 1940 " (#2)
February 17, 1940 Hamilton's Part in Telephonic History (#1)
February 24, 1940 " (#2)
March 2, 1940 The Old Bands
March 9, 1940 Hamilton Town in 1833 (#1)
March 16, 1940 " (#2)
March 23, 1940 " Town and Town Fathers (#3)
March 30, 1940 " Hamilton Happenings in 1835
April 6, 1940 Humanity Martin
April 13, 1940 A Hamilton Explorer
April 20, 1940 Daily Spectator and Journal of Commerce
April 27, 1940 Victor of the Marathon
May 4, 1940 Town Annals of 1836
May 11, 1940 Some Old Stone Houses (#1)
May 25, 1940 More Stone Houses (#2)
June 1, 1940 Hospitalization in Hamilton
June 8, 1940 "A Lady With a Lamp"
June 15, 1940 Historic Burlington Heights
June 29, 1940 An Ancient Mariner (#1)
July 6, 1940 " (#2)
July 13, 1940 Home of Hamilton's First Senator
July 20, 1940 More Old Stone Houses
July 27, 1940 Back in the Fifties
August 3, 1940 Admiral Saunders
August 10, 1940 Some "Might Have Beens"
August 17, 1940 A Royal Visitor
August 24, 1940 Tales of Courage
August 31, 1940 Tales for the Times (#1)
September 7, 1940 " (#2)
September 14, 1940 " (#3)
September 21, 1940 " (#4)
September 28, 1940 " (#5)
October 5, 1940 " (#6)
October 12, 1940 " (#7)
October 19, 1940 " (#8)
October 26, 1940 " (#9)
November 2, 1940 " (#10)
November 9, 1940 Story of an Old Cartoon (77th Wentworth Regiment)
November 16, 1940 Valiant Hearts
November 23, 1940 Looking Backward and Forward
November 30, 1940 Gallant Gentlemen and Others
December 7, 1940 An Anniversary
December 14, 1940 Leaders and Misleaders
December 21, 1940 "Mansion House of Liberty"
December 28, 1940 Chivalry and Chicanery
