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, Friday November 22. Learn more.

Public computers are available at all branches.
Printing is available at all branches. Photocopying is available at all branches except for the Concession, Dundas, and Terryberry branches. Scanning is not yet available.
Public Wi-Fi is available at most branches except the Ancaster Branch.
Automatic check-ins are operating.
Makerspace services are available at select locations.

Contact Library Staff: call 289-779-7588, chat at hpl.ca, and email askus@hpl.ca. Branches are open. Check hpl.ca/events for program updates. Thank you for your patience.

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Publish Date:

Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 8:00am

Notices

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Magazine and ILLO Delay

Magazine and ILLO deliveries are delayed due to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) strike. Thank you for your understanding.

Publish Date:

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 8:30am

City IT Planned Maintenance

A City IT systems update is scheduled for early Saturday morning. This will impact access to HPL's network and some applications. This update will improve overall network capacity, performance, resiliency, reliability and is the foundation for future network updates. Thank you for your patience.

Publish Date:

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 8:00am

3D Printing Not Available On Sundays

Please note that 3D printing services are unavailable on Sundays. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Publish Date:

Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 2:00pm

Early Closure - All HPL Branches, Friday, November 22

Due to a special event, all HPL branches will close at 4 pm on Friday, November 22.

Central Library's 4th Floor will be closed all day except for the Newcomer Learning Centre and Makerspace which will be open until 4 pm.

Regular service hours resume on Saturday, November 23.

Thank you for your understanding.

Affected Branch:

Central Library

Publish Date:

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 2:00pm

Murder Victims

A (14) B (36) C (30) D (41) E (4) F (16) G (21) H (31) I (3) J (14) K (19) L (23) M (55) N (4) O (6) P (27) R (22) S (36) T (19) U (3) V (8) W (22) Y (5) Z (3)

Barron, Constable James

Born circa 1857, Died 1903

Burkholder, Philander

Died 1905

Buda, Simon

Died 1907

Beach, Jane Patricia (Banman)

Born circa 1948, Died 1969

Blaikie, David

Born circa 1923, Died 1969

Burke, Gerry Gibson

Born circa 1945, Died 1969

Blanchard, Rose

Born circa 1937, Died 1971

Bannister, Robert

Born circa 1945, Died 1974

Bicknell, James

Born circa 1898, Died 1974

Bell, George Richard

Born circa 1946, Died 1976

Burtch, Charles Alvin

Born circa 1922, Died 1976

Bryant, Evelyn

Born circa 1913, Died 1977

Butler, John

Born circa 1953, Died 1979

Bird, William

Born circa 1956, Died 1980

Borsellino, Gasper

Born circa 1920, Died 1980

Beraxa, Theresa

Born circa 1945, Died 1981

Bird, Russell Earl

Born circa 1944, Died 1983

Bowers, Harvey

Born circa 1918, Died 1983

Bush, William Clair

Born circa 1914, Died 1986

Bozek, Ed

Born circa 1929, Died 1987

Buckle, Gordon

Born circa 1939, Died 1988

Boyd, James

Born circa 1964, Died 1993

Baltrusaitis, Kestutis

Born circa 1954, Died 1994

Brush, Cecil

Died 1994

Banks Family

Died 1995

Bill, Christian

Born 1996, Died 1996

Byers, Spencer (Sonny)

Born circa 1948, Died 1996

Brace, Paul

Born circa 1961, Died 1999

Bailey, Russell

Born circa 1960, Died 2002

Bouwhuis, Michael

Born 1985, Died 2008

Burnett, George Washington

Born circa 1928, Died 2011

Bajkor, James

Born circa 1990, Died 2012

Brewer, Michael

Born circa 1982, Died 2012

Baffoh, Daniel

Born circa 1987, Died 2013

Brady, Ruby

Born 1933, Died 1963

Brady, William

Died 1963