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)

Kuternoga, Anton "Tony"

Born circa 1927, Died 1956

Kozak, Edward

Born circa 1936, Died 1969

Komorowski, Adele

Born 1948, Died 1973

Kampers, Maurice

Born circa 1921, Died 1977

Kinloch, Allan Bruce

Born circa 1956, Died 1982

Krobel, Edward King

Born circa 1948, Died 1982

Kowalczyk, Helen

Born circa 1914, Died 1985

Kenney, Brian

Born circa 1952, Died 1987

King, Glenn Gordon

Born circa 1969, Died 1987

Khanna, Ravinder

Born circa 1951, Died 1988

Kotowick, Felicia Elizabeth

Born circa 1987, Died 1990

Kouvelas, Karen

Born circa 1964, Died 1992

Keddie, John David

Born circa 1948, Died 1994

Khela, Ranjit Singh

Born circa 1970, Died 1996

Karer, Margaret

Born circa 1965, Died 1999

King, Rose Winifred

Born circa 1950, Died 1999

Kapustyn, Ilya

Born circa 1989, Died 2003

Kovacs, Jessie

Born circa 1956, Died 2011

Keizer, Noah

Born 2010, Died 2012