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

Waterdown and Millgrove Branches Closing November 5

November 2, 2015 – Hamilton Public Library’s Waterdown and Millgrove Branches will close at the end of business on Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.

Customers are encouraged to pick up all holds and library materials before November 5 and to indicate where future holds should be sent. Materials that are not picked up will be available at the new Waterdown Branch location when it opens in the coming weeks.

The new 15,000-square-foot facility, located at 163 Dundas Street East, will be part of a larger community complex that will also house a Senior Centre, the City’s Municipal Service Centre, Flamborough Archives, and Flamborough Information & Community Services.

Library customers in Flamborough can continue to access library services and materials in the interim by visiting other branch locations in the area, including: Carlisle (1496 Centre Road, Carlisle), Dundas (18 Ogilvie Street, Dundas), Freelton (1803 Brock Road, Freelton) and Greensville (59 Kirby Avenue, Greensville).

To better serve the Millgrove community, a new Bookmobile stop at Millgrove Public School is scheduled to begin operating on Tuesday evenings from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. starting November 10.

About the Hamilton Public Library

Hamilton Public Library is a vibrant hub for information and culture, providing our diverse community the Freedom to Discover. As one of the largest library systems in Canada, Hamiltonians can discover something new at our 22 locations, two bookmobiles, or through our extensive digital collections. Visit us online at hpl.ca. Follow us on Twitter @hamiltonlibrary. Like us on Facebook at HamiltonPublicLibrary.