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, Thursday November 21. 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

Art Crawl @HPL

text join us for art crawl at hpl with stylized background of central library Central Library will be open from 6:30pm to 9:00pm on Friday, June 10 for Art Crawl.

We have art, music, literature and history for Art Crawl on Friday June 10.

Join our archivist and Gallery of Distinction awardee Margaret Houghton for a walking tour of the Historic Monuments of Gore Park -- Hamilton's first park. Everyone who wishes to join the tour is asked to be at the 1^st floor Living Room area of Central Library by 7:00pm.

Author Reading

Hamilton Public Library is honoured to host author Rachael Preston who will read from her book, The Fishers of Paradise. Rachael, originally from Hamilton, is visiting on the occasion of her book having been selected by Project Bookmark Canada as the 16^th bookmark of the project and the 2^nd bookmark in Hamilton. Rachael’s session will include a reading followed by an opportunity to ask questions.

Art

L'Arche Hamilton Information and Craft Table (1^st floor)
Chiildren's Charter of Rights Exhibit (1^st floor)
Blue Dot (Citizens' Rights to a Healthy Environment) Student Art (1^st floor)
Galerry4 Exhibitor - Leeanne D'Alesio (1^st floor)
Revolution (Rev) wear Collection, Gallery 4 Annex (4^th floor)

Music

Ilona Spleit & the Spleit Strings Studio
Bel Canto Strings

*Please note that during Art Crawl, borrowing of library materials will not be available.

City-Wide Outage, Library Service Impacted

Magazine and ILLO Delay

City IT Planned Maintenance

3D Printing Not Available On Sundays

Early Closure - All HPL Branches, Friday, November 22

Art Crawl @HPL

We have art, music, literature and history for Art Crawl on Friday June 10.

Author Reading

Music

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