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, Monday November 4. Learn more.

Public computers are available at all locations except Central Library's 2nd and 3rd Floors.
Printing is available at all branches. Photocopying is available at all branches except for the Terryberry, Concession, and Dundas branches. Scanning is not yet available.
Website log-in is available, access is restored to the catalogue, the HPL App is online, online eResources are available and Holds can be placed.
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, October 29, 2024 - 8:00am

Notices

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Ending support for OverDrive's desktop apps and website MP3 downloads

On November 13, 2024, the MP3 audiobook format will be retired from HPL's OverDrive website and support for OverDrive's desktop apps for Windows and Mac (which only work with MP3 audiobooks) will not be available.

After this change, you can listen to audiobooks using the following options:

In Libby (available for Android, iOS, or Amazon Fire devices or at libbyapp.com in a web browser)
On HPL's OverDrive website using the Listen now in browser option
In the OverDrive app (only available in select countries)

Publish Date:

Monday, November 4, 2024 - 9:15am

An Evening for Book Lovers featuring Jane Urquhart

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Friday, June 8, 2017, 7:00pm, Central Library

Join us for one of our most popular events of the year. Be there as we reveal our choice for this year's title for Hamilton Reads

An Evening for Book Lovers will feature author Alison Pick who will read from her novel Strangers with the Same Dream

All audience members will be entered in draws for big baskets of books.

Tickets are at $10 and are now available at all Hamilton Public Library branches and online via ticketscene.ca.

Refreshments are included in the ticket price.

This is a 19+ event.