City-wide outage, library service impacted
HPL is recovering from the City of Hamilton's cybersecurity-related outage, which began Sunday February 25 and continues today. Learn more.
- Public computers are available at all branches. JAWS (Job Access With Speech) computers are not available
- Printing is available at all branches.
- Photocopying is available at all branches except for the Concession Branch.
- Scanning is not yet available.
- Public Wi-Fi is available at most branches except the Ancaster Branch.
- Makerspace services are available at select locations.
Contact Library Staff at 289-779-7588, hpl.ca or askus@hpl.ca. Check hpl.ca/events for programs and hpl.ca/hours for open hours.
Requesting Items
If an item you want to borrow is currently not available, you can reserve it by placing a hold. You can place a hold on most items using our online catalogue, by phone or at any library branch.
See our Borrowing FAQs for more information on placing a hold.
If the item you are looking for is not in the HPL catalogue, you can ask us to consider adding it to our collection by filling out the Suggest for Purchase form. Alternatively, you can request a book from library systems outside of HPL with our ILLO Request Form.