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)

Smith, Lottie (Stamford)

Born 1884, Died 1930

Slifka, William Richard

Born circa 1924, Died 1949

Sloman, Kathleen

Born circa 1925, Died 1952

Sipes, Ann Alberta

Born circa 1925, Died 1953

Shore, Eddie

Born circa 1903, Died 1957

Skrypka, Agnes Martha

Born circa 1941, Died 1967

Steinhoff, Carla Maria

Born circa 1940, Died 1975

Syer, William

Born circa 1908, Died 1977

Sidhu, Rupinder

Born circa 1978, Died 1979

Schwark, Caroline Ann

Born circa 1969, Died 1981

Soluk, Mary Lou

Born circa 1957, Died 1981

Spagnoli, Rosario

Born circa 1921, Died 1981

Stuart, Dewayne

Born circa 1947, Died 1983

Sabados, Randy

Born circa 1961, Died 1984

Sutton, Dale

Born circa 1961, Died 1985

Schrank, Rita

Born circa 1944, Died 1986

Smith, Jimmy, Jr.

Born circa 1964, Died 1989

Schuster, Gerry Robert Anthony

Born 1990, Died 1990

Sicurella, Victoria

Born circa 1959, Died 1991

Sarao, Ranbir Kaur

Born circa 1960, Died 1992

Seraphin, Jane

Born circa 1950, Died 1992

Sidhu, Amrik Singh

Born circa 1937, Died 1992

Sidhu, Surinder

Born circa 1943, Died 1992

Shepherd, Mariah

Born 1994, Died 1994

Smook, James William

Born circa 1957, Died 1995

Saunders, Beau

Born circa 1976, Died 1997

Simon-Took, Tristin

Born 1996, Died 1997

Stonebridge, Christopher Andrew

Born circa 1976, Died 1999

Serson, William Mark

Born circa 1978, Died 2001

Surette, James

Born circa 1959, Died 2006

Sherzady, Shaheen

Born circa 1984, Died 2007

Smith, Dale James

Born circa 1984, Died 2008

Swistak, Michael

Born circa 1976, Died 2012

Sullivan, Michael

Born circa 1962, Died 2013

Steer, Margaret Elizabeth

Born circa 1958, Died 2014

Sitter, Ernie

Born circa 1957, Died 2014