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.
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.
3D Printing Not Available On Sundays
Please note that 3D printing services are unavailable on Sundays. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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.
An Evening for Book Lovers featuring Jane Urquhart
Friday, June 8, 2017, 7:00pm, Central Library
Join us for one of our most popular events of the year. Be there as we reveal our choice for this year's title for Hamilton Reads
An Evening for Book Lovers will feature author Alison Pick who will read from her novel Strangers with the Same Dream
All audience members will be entered in draws for big baskets of books.
Tickets are at $10 and are now available at all Hamilton Public Library branches and online via ticketscene.ca.
Refreshments are included in the ticket price.
This is a 19+ event.