Bookmobile Service Modification

Due to Driver availability, Bookmobile has the following schedule modifications for the month of May. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Tuesday, May 5:                   

  • McMaster University - Cancelled

Friday, May 8:                     

  • Winona - Cancelled
  • Queen Victoria - Cancelled

Tuesday, May 12:               

  • Greencedar - Cancelled
  • Mountview - Cancelled

Wednesday, May 13:               

  • Swansea - Cancelled
  • Helen Detwiler - Cancelled
  • Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum - Cancelled

Thursday, May 14:                

  • Rockton - Cancelled
  • Mohawk Gardens - Cancelled
  • Meadowlands - Cancelled

Monday, May 18: All Bookmobile sites closed

Published:
Monday, May 4, 2026 - 12:00pm
Terryberry Large Format Printer Out of Service

Terryberry's Large Format Printer is currently out of service.

Published:
Monday, May 4, 2026 - 10:30am
Printing Unavailable at Ancaster Branch

Printing is not working at Ancaster Branch. We aim to fix it as soon as possible.

Published:
Thursday, April 30, 2026 - 5:30pm
Central Library: Non-Partner Survey

Starting Monday, April 27 until May 9, non-partner community organizations are encouraged to participate in a short survey. HPL would like to learn how the Library Card Access Pilot Project and the toxic drug crisis in general affect non-partner organizations. Please note that the survey is not anonymous. Start now at www.hpl.ca/non-partner-survey.

Published:
Monday, April 27, 2026 - 9:30am
Software Maintenance - Victoria Day, Monday, May 18

Due to software maintenance, HPL library's catalogue, online services and library accounts will not be available between 9am and 7pm on Monday, May 18. Thank you for your patience.

Published:
Friday, April 24, 2026 - 9:00am
Central Library - Fire Drill, Tuesday, May 5, 11am

Due to Staff training, Central Library will close from 11am to Noon on Tuesday, May 5. You may visit Locke and Barton Branches as the next nearest locations for your library needs. Thank you for your patience.

Published:
Thursday, April 23, 2026 - 9:00am
Concession Branch - Renovations Underway

Renovations are expected to be completed by May 7. Construction repairs and noise may impact your next visit. Thank you for your understanding.

Published:
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 1:15pm
Central Library: Children's Area Renovation on 2nd Floor

Renovations are currently underway for the 2nd floor Central Children's Area. Programs are still being offered as scheduled and there is a temporary pop-up Children’s Area on the northeast side of the 2nd floor (near the Piano Room), including access to collections and train tables. Construction is expected to be completed by late Spring. Thank you for your patience during this time.

Published:
Monday, March 23, 2026 - 9:00am
Sherwood Branch: Renovations

As of Monday, March 2, Sherwood Branch's 2nd floor is closed due to renovations. Makerspace, Children and Teen's collection are temporarily available on the 1st floor. All programs will be held in the basement program room. Renovations are expected to be completed in late Spring. Thank you for your patience.

Published:
Tuesday, February 10, 2026 - 1:00pm

McCullough Collection

Box #3

January 4, 1936 - December 31, 1938

January 4, 1936 Some Seventy Years Ago (#3)

January 11, 1936 First Century of Canadian Journalism (Series) (#1)

January 18, 1936 " (#2)

January 25, 1936 " (#3)

February 1, 1936 " (#4)

February 8, 1936 " (#5)

February 15, 1936 " (#6)

February 22, 1936 " (#7)

February 29, 1936 " (#8)

March 7, 1936 " (#9)

March 14, 1936 " (#10)

March 21, 1936 " An Earlier Spectator (#11)

March 28, 1936 " Two Ancient Newspapers (#12)

April 4, 1936 " Mackenzie and The Colonial Advocate (#13)

April 11, 1936 " The Stormy Petrel of Journalism (#14)

April 18, 1936 " The Hamilton Free Press (#15)

April 25, 1936 " Hamilton Papers of 100 Years Ago (#16)

May 2, 1936 " Spectator's Founder Arrives (#17)

May 9, 1936 " Spectator Files of 'Forty-Six' (#18)

May 16, 1936 " Smiley's First Editorial (#19)

May 23, 1936 " A Spectator Leader of 'Forty-Six' (#20)

May 30, 1936 " Historic Eighteen-Forty-Six (#21)

June 6, 1936 " From a Niagara Newspaper of 1820 (#22)

June 13, 1936 " Spectator - 90 Years Ago (#23)

June 20, 1936 " Spectator Annals of 'Forty-Six' (#24)

June 27, 1936 " Hamilton Sidelights in 1846 (#25)

July 4, 1936 " Our Files of 'Forty-Six' (#26)

July 11, 1936 " Almost a Century Ago (#27)

July 18, 1936 " Extracts From An Early Edition (#28)

July 25, 1936 " Ninety Years Ago Today (#29)

August 1, 1936 " Spectator Files of 'Forty-Six' (#30)

August 8, 1936 " Back to 'Forty-Six' (#31)

August 15, 1936 " Spectator News of Ninety Years Ago (#32)

August 22, 1936 " Spectator of 'Forty-Six (#33)

August 29, 1936 " From a Spectator of Long Ago (#34)

September 5, 1936 " In Eighteen Forty-Six (#35)

September 12, 1936 " Old Spectator Files (#36)

September 19, 1936 " The Spectator in 'Forty-Six (#37)

September 26, 1936 " Some Ninety Years Ago (#38)

October 3, 1936 no article published

October 10, 1936 First Century of Canadian Journalism (Series)

Spectator File of 'Forty-Six (#39)

October 17, 1936 " Spectator Columns of 1846 (#40)

October 24, 1936 " Spectator Files of 'Forty-Six (#41)

October 31, 1936 " Spectator of Ninety Years Ago (#42)

November 7, 1936 " Old Time Editor En Tour (#43)

November 14, 1936 " Back in Forty-Six (#44)

November 21, 1936 " A Spectator of September 19, 1846 (#45)

November 28, 1936 " In the Days of Elgin (#46)

December 5. 1936 Ellen Osler's Memorial

December 12, 1936 First Century of Canadian Journalism (Series)

Files of 'Forty-Six (#47)

December 19, 1936 The Spectator's First Christmas

December 26, 1936 Boxing Day

January 2, 1937 The Spectator's First New Year

January 9, 1937 First Century of Canadian Journalism (Series)

Back in the Forties (#48)

January 16, 1937 The Spectator in Retrospect

January 23, 1937 News of Long Ago

January 30, 1937 Paola Brown, the Town Crier (#1)

February 6, 1937 " (#2)

February 13, 1937 The Saint's Anniversary

February 27, 1937 Looking Backward

March 6, 1937 Advertisers of 'Forty-Six

March 13, 1937 The Old College (#1)

March 20, 1937 " (#2)

March 27, 1937 The Hamilton Charivari

April 3, 1937 Terry Branigan's Chronicles (#1)

April 10, 1937 " (#2)

April 17, 1937 " (#3)

April 24, 1937 The Tragedy of Jane McCrea

May 1, 1937 Peeps Into the Past. A Coast Conflict of '58 (#1)

May 8, 1937 " Publicity and Pioneers (#2)

May 15, 1937 " Honest Joe Rymal (#3)

May 22, 1937 " Peeps Into the Past (#4)

May 29, 1937 " In the Days of Monck (#5)

June 5, 1937 " The Trent and Other Troubles (#6)

June 12, 1937 " News and Views of '62 (#7)

June 19, 1937 " An Old Editor Talks (#8)

June 26, 1937 " Bird-Lovers and Others (#9)

July 3, 1937 " A Coleridge Forecast (#10)

July 10, 1937 " Sydney Smith and Others (#11)

July 17, 1937 " Back in the Sixties (#12)

July 24, 1937 " Artemus Ward and Others (#13)

July 31, 1937 " Echoes of Olden Days (#14)

August 7, 1937 " "Partisans, Profiteers, Patriots" (#15)

August 14, 1937 " Good Old Times? (#16)

August 21, 1937 " When North Fought South (#17)

August 28, 1937 " Freedom for Slaves (#18)

September 4, 1937 " Kings, Commoners and Cables (#19)

September 11, 1937 " Politics and Piety (#20)

September 18, 1937 " Charles Heavysege and Others (#21)

September 25, 1937 " While Neighbours Fought (#22)

October 2, 1937 " Poets, Press and Patriots (#23)

October 9, 1937 " The Glengarrian and Others (#24)

October 16, 1937 " The Thunderer and Other Things (#25)

October 23, 1937 " Elizabethan and Other Stories (#26)

October 30, 1937 " Princes and Pioneers (#27)

November 6, 1937 " The Martyred McGee (#28)

November 13, 1937 " Robinsons, Loyalists (#29)

November 19, 1937 Some Seventy Years Ago

November 27, 1937 Zealand of the Navy (#1)

December 3, 1937 " (#2)

December 11, 1937 Peeps Into the Past Series. Back in the Sixties (#31)

December 18, 1937 Christmastide of 'Fifty-Seven

December 18, 1937 Anglo-American Affairs in 1863

December 24, 1937 Jane McCrea

December 31, 1937 Peeps Into the Past. What Somerville Said (#34)

January 8, 1938 " Imperial Mexico (#33)

January 15, 1938 " News of 'Sixty-Three (#35)

January 22, 1938 " Principally About Princes (#36)

January 29, 1938 " "Farmer George" (#37)

February 5, 1938 " Fragments of History (#38)

February 11, 1938 " Garrick As Sherlock Holmes (#40)

February 19, 1938 " Seventy-Five Years Ago (#39)

February 26, 1938 " An Eminent Statesman (#41)

March 5, 1938 The Doanes. An Historic Family (#1)

March 12, 1938 " (#2)

March 19, 1938 Peeps Into the Past. Poetry and Physic (#42)

March 26, 1938 " Courts and Colleges (#43)

April 2, 1938 Redmen's Relics (#1)

April 8, 1938 " (#2)

April 16, 1938 " (#3)

April 23, 1938 Peeps Into the Past. Historical Review (#44)

April 29, 1938 " Press, Pulpit and People (#45)

May 7, 1938 On the Road

May 14, 1938 Land of Hope

May 21, 1938 Local History (#1)

May 28, 1938 " (#2)

June 4, 1938 " (#3)

June 11, 1938 Peeps Into the Past. War Talk in the Sixties (#46)

June 18, 1938 " Hamilton Steeplechase, 1983 (#47)

June 25, 1938 " The Way Westward (#48)

July 2, 1938 Albert Bigelow, Benefactor

July 9, 1938 "A Musician's Scrapbook" (#1)

July 16, 1938 Peeps Into the Past. Harriet Annie and the Editors(#49)

July 23, 1938 "A Musician's Scrapbook" (#2)

July 30, 1938 Peeps Into the Past. Pen and Sword (#50)

August 6, 1938 "A Musician's Scrapbook" (#3)

August 13, 1938 Peeps Into the Past (#51)

August 20, 1938 "A Musician's Scrapbook" (#4)

August 27, 1938 Peeps Into the Past. Some Seventy Years Ago (#52)

September 3, 1938 The First Four Georges (#1)

September 10, 1938 " (#2)

September 17, 1938 " (#3)

September 24, 1938 " (#4)

October 1, 1938 "A Musician's Scrapbook" (#5)

October 17, 1938 The Romance of Language (#2)

October 22, 1938 " (#3)

October 29, 1938 "A Musician's Scrapbook" (#6)

November 5, 1938 Peeps Into the Past. Warriors - White and Red (#53)

November 12, 1938 " Author of Wacousta, and Others (#54)

November 19, 1938 " In the Seventies and Eighties (#55)

November 26, 1938 " Henry, Lord Brougham (#56)

December 3, 1938 " Trotting and Taxes (#57)

December 12, 1938 " An Old Treaty and Other Things (#58)

December 17, 1938 " A Cricket Match of '63 (#59)

December 24, 1938 " An Old Commentator (#60)

December 31, 1938 " Kindling Thoughts and Other Things (#61)