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, Thursday November 21. 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

Binbrook Grand Opening

Join us as we hold the Grand Opening of our Binbrook Branch.

10:15am to 10:45am - Family Storytime

11:00am to 11:20am - Remarks & Refreshments:
Brief remarks by:

Mayor Fred Eisenberger
Councillor Brenda Johnson, Ward 11
Paul Takala, CEO & Chief Librarian
Lori-Anne Spence-Smith, Hamilton Public Library Board Chair
Carol Wilkinson, Binbrook Branch Manager

11:00am to 12:45pm - Makerspace demonstrations featuring image digitization and video conversion

11:00am to 1:00pm & 2:00pm to 3:00pm - Greenscreen Magic. Step back into Binbrook's history and put yourself into one of three historical pictures. All ages.

1:00pm to 3:00pm - A variety of programs happening.

LEGOmania: Put your imagination to the test.
Introduction to Ozobots: Learn how to program a mini robot using block coding. Limit: 10 children at a time.
Button Making: Design it. Wear it.

All programs will be offered in the program room. Choose your station and have fun.