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)

Heslop, John

Born circa 1811, Died 1891

Harrison, May

Born circa 1893, Died 1969

Hobbs, Denise

Born circa 1954, Died 1975

Horncastle, Carol

Born circa 1949, Died 1976

Hannon, Patrick Joseph

Born circa 1928, Died 1977

Hill, Barry Arthur

Born circa 1963, Died 1979

Hodder, Lawrence "Larry"

Born circa 1961, Died 1979

Hodgin, Peter George

Born circa 1941, Died 1981

Homewood, Frank Joseph

Born circa 1928, Died 1982

Hawley, Stewart

Born circa 1979, Died 1983

Hill, Glenn

Born circa 1932, Died 1983

Hazzard, Dianne

Born circa 1944, DIed 1984

Halachan, John

Born circa 1939, Died 1985

Haralampides, Nicolas (Nick)

Born circa 1966, Died 1985

Hill, Michele

Born circa 1968, Died 1985

Hatt, Carol

Born circa 1962, Died 1986

Hornbeck, Susan Joy

Born circa 1956, Died 1986

Hirji, Nasir

Born circa 1959, Died 1988

Hurley, Patrick

Born circa 1954, Died 1988

Hutchings, Ralston (Ross)

Born circa 1933, Died 1990

Hachey, Willard

Born circa 1954, Died 1991

Hofmann, Gert

Born circa 1956, Died 1991

Heimbecker, Joan

Born circa 1969, Died 1994

Hiscock, Wray Alexander

Born circa 1964, Died 1994

Heagle, David

Born circa 1971, Died 1995

Henderson, Robert

Born circa 1969, Died 1999

Hill, Gary

Born circa 1941, Died 1999

Henrickson, William

Born circa 1931, Died 2000

Hummel, Monika

Born circa 1969, Died 2005

Haggerty, Paul

Born circa 1988, Died 2007

Hutt, Ingrid

Born circa 1948, Died 2009