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)

Parrott, Bridget

Born circa 1839, Died 1899

Perri, Bessie (Starkman)

Died 1930

Perry, William A.

Born 1907, DIed 1958

Pentilchuk Family

Died 1962

Paddon Family

Died 1967

Pepper, Keith

Born circa 1965, Died 1967

Piarina, Anna

Born circa 1910, Died 1974

Piarina, Pasquale

Born circa 1906, Died 1974

Parker, Robert James

Born circa 1952, Died 1975

Porterfield, Melanie

Born circa 1957, Died 1977

Prowse, Michael

Born circa 1960, Died 1978

Paquette, Claude

Died 1979

Palango, John

Born circa 1951, Died 1981

Paraszczuk, Patricia

Born circa 1956, Died 1982

Pham, Thien Minh

Born circa 1952, Died 1985

Piche, David

Born circa 1945, Died 1985

Perrin, Beverly Ann

Born circa 1934, Died 1989

Piccolo Family

Died 1996

Papalia, John

Born circa 1924, Died 1997

Purssord, William

Born circa 1980, Died 2002

Phillips, Ellisse

Born circa 1981, Died 2003

Porter, Jason

Born circa 1977, Died 2003

Page, Jean Paul

Born circa 1975, Died 2004

Parler, Nadine

Born circa 1972, Died 2008

Pal, Ferenc

Born circa 1960, Died 2008

Padvaiskas, Dustin

Born circa 1990, Died 2011

Pereira, David

Born circa 1997, Died 2013