HPL Central Staff
On January 14 2021, HPL was notified of a Central employee who tested COVID-positive. While at work, the employee was wearing appropriate personal protective equipment and maintained physical distancing. A thorough cleaning and disinfection of Central's Basement, Floor 1 and Floor 2 was completed. HPL is working with Hamilton Public Health for contact tracing. We wish the employee a quick and full recovery.
Bookmobile Modifications
Bookmobile service is paused until Saturday January 16, 2021 as a precautionary measure, so we can deep-clean after a staff member at Central staff went home ill and another was notified as a close contact of a COVID-19 positive case. Bookmobile items on affected floors are being quarantined out of an abundance of caution.
HPL.ca Pages
If you are having difficulty accessing the Kids, Teens, and Local History pages, please try clearing your browser’s cache. We are working to resolve this issue. Thank you for your patience.
Print on the Go
Print on the Go service is currently unable to print fillable government documents. We are working to resolve the issue. All other uploaded documents are printed by branch staff upon arrival.
Charles Cochran
These images are from an album containing contact prints of some of Charles Schriber Cochran’s (1854-1933) finest photographs, taken when he operated a photographic studio in Hamilton. Many of them were never published and are available here to the public for the first time.
The collection contains nearly 100 photographs spanning the years 1886 to 1902.
