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

2023-24 Writer in Residence

Thank you to Jaclyn Desforges, the 2023-24 Mabel Pugh Taylor Writer in Residence. (A Writer in Residence is an established author who mentors aspiring scribes.)

During the residency, which ran September 2023-April 2024, Jaclyn met with more than 155 people. Below are some stories and poems created and polished during this mentorship. Read on.

Writer in Residence 2024 Mentee Stories

An Early Anniversary Gift, J. Awad

Call it What You Will, Nyasha Warner

Crabtree and Maple's Morning, Bruce Simpson

Daylight, Yoda Olinyk

Foreigners, Nawad Eftekhari

I Am Here, Khadija Agbermafle Sulley

Is Your Stuttering a Disability, Justin Ancheta

Kindling, Barb Arenburg

Mother Tongue, Kathleen Kelly

Poems, Valerie Bean

Purgatory, J. Awad

Seven Minute Molly, J.I.Oniell

Suitable Cruelties, Marcellus Durell

Summer School Short-Lived, Hannah Murphy

The Games Played Only Lead to Ruin, Ian Marcus

Under Ashes, Christine Miscione

A new Writer in Residence will be announced in September 2024. Stay tuned ...

About Jaclyn Desforges

Jaclyn Desforges is the author of Danger Flower and Why Are You So Quiet? She is the winner of the 2022 Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry, 2022 City of Hamilton Creator Award, 2020 Hamilton Emerging Artist Award for Writing, two 2019 Short Works Prizes and the 2018 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing and lives in Hamilton with her partner and daughter.