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.
Not If I See You First
The Teen Readers of Hamilton have spoken.
Hamilton's Top Novel for 2016 is Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom.
The story of Parker Grant joins the exclusive club of top novels that have been deemed the best by our readers.
Check out Not If I See You First and find out why over 2,000 votes were cast for this novel.
We thank everyone who cast their votes and made Next Top Novel 2016 one of our most successful years.
All these titles are available as Bestseller Express items, so pick one up now.