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)

Grimes, Joseph

Died 1890

Griffin, Annie

Born circa 1882, Died 1900

Gregory, David

Born circa 1936, Died 1962

Griffett, Martha

Born circa 1907, Died 1962

George, Beverley Ann

Died 1973

Gilchrist, Alan

Born circa 1967, Died 1976

Gilchrist, Lorna

Born circa 1970, Died 1976

Guillette, Yvonne (Frenchie)

Born circa 1943, Died 1976

Gainham, Victor

Born circa 1929, Died 1983

Green, Christine

Born circa 1951, Died 1983

Garvey, Graham Robert

Born circa 1951, Died 1986

Gillings, Helen

Born circa 1976, Died 1995

Gatecliffe, Gary

Born circa 1953, Died 1996

Gottfryd, Debbie

Born circa 1965, Died 2001

Graham, Raymond

Born circa 1968, Died 2002

Gaudet, Sonia Marie

Born circa 1951, Died 2005

Gardiner, Shawn

Born circa 1962, Died 2009

Green, Jason

Born circa 1971, Died 2010

Gayle, Devon Anthony

Born circa 1988, Died 2010

Gleave, Audrey

Born circa 1937, Died 2010

Granda, Gloria

Born circa 1951, Died 1986