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)

Welch, Eliza

Died 1859

Willis, Elsie Muriel

Born circa 1924, Died 1957

White, Linda

Died 1968

Winning, Cecile

Born circa 1940, Died 1974

Whaley, Roger William

Born circa 1953, Died 1976

Werendowicz, Dianne Louisa

Born circa 1957, Died 1981

Worobel, Elizabeth

Born circa 1925, Died 1985

Wright, Janice

Born circa 1960, Died 1990

Winning, Janet

Born circa 1951, Died 1991

Wristen, Penny

Born circa 1962, Died 1993

White, Ramonde

Born circa 1932, Died 1994

Wilkieson, Ryan

Born circa 1978, Died 1994

Woodrow, Edwina

Born circa 1934, Died 1994

Wade, Anne

Born circa 1936, Died 1995

Welsh, Michael

Born circa 1951, Died 1996

Willie, Meliek

Born 1996, Died 1997

Wood, Michael James

Born 1996, Died 1997

White, Stewart Craig

Born circa 1966, Died 2000

White, Taylor

Born 1999, Died 2002

Walsh, Michael Eugene

Born circa 1984, Died 2006

Watsauka, Kadakwahe

Born circa 1983, Died 2007

Wilkinson, Amber Lynne

Died 2011