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)

London, Bartholomew

Died 1801

Lindsay, Homer C.

Died 1923

Lawrence, Sidney

Died 1937

Lazic, Jelena

Born circa 1922, Died 1957

Lefler, Norm

Born circa 1926, Died 1975

Ludkin, Erin

Born circa 1972, Died 1975

Labadi, Imre James

Born circa 1936, Died 1976

Lake, Marjorie

Born circa 1908, Died 1977

Langendoean, Everett

Born circa 1931, Died 1978

Lapointe, Robert

Born circa 1938, Died 1982

Leite, Agueda

Born circa 1929, Died 1983

Leite, Manuel

Born circa 1929, Died 1983

Lepinski, Domenic

Born circa 1916, Died 1983

Lewis, James Robert

Born circa 1959, Died 1984

Lightheart, Frank

Born circa 1958, Died 1984

Little, Catherine Ann

Born circa 1962, Died 1984

Longboat, Stephen Edward

Born circa 1956, Died 1991

Lax, Morris

Born 1921, Died 1992

Longboat, Craig

Born circa 1976, Died 1995

Lindsay, Jean

Born circa 1924, Died 1996

Lindsay, Deborah

Born circa 1964, Died 2004

Lopez, Armando

Born circa 1953, Died 2004

Legacy, Cohen

Born 2008, Died 2008