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

Karen Kain

Karen Kain
Inducted: 2005

Previous Inductees

A (5) | B (23) | C (20) | D (5) | E (2) | F (15) | G (12) | H (16) | J (11) | K (4) | L (13) | M (30) | N (1) | O (2) | P (8) | Q (1) | R (10) | S (22) | T (4) | W (13) | Y (3) | Z (2)

Dominic Agostino

2008

John Louis Agro

1989

Lincoln MacCauley Alexander

1992

Mahmoud (Mo) Ali

1997

Frank Augustyn

2000

City-Wide Outage, Library Service Impacted

Magazine and ILLO Delay

City IT Planned Maintenance

3D Printing Not Available On Sundays

Karen Kain

Previous Inductees

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