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, Wednesday November 20. 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

Delayed Branch Openings

Due to Staff training, the following branches have delayed openings of 10 am on:

Tuesday, November 19: Concession

Wednesday, November 20: Ancaster (2 pm opening)

Thursday, November 21: Valley Park

Please visit nearby branches for your library needs. www.hpl.ca/hours

Publish Date:

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 12:00pm

Kenilworth Branch - Roof Repairs

From November 11 to 29, the parking lot may not be available at certain times of the day due to repair maintenance. There may also be some noise disruptions in the branch. Thank you for your understanding.

Affected Branch:

Kenilworth Branch

Publish Date:

Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 3:00pm

OGS Collection Family Histories

These books are filed alphabetically by the Family name.

Those books listed in italics were not transferred from the OGS as Local History & Archives or the library general collection already owned them. To access these books please use the library call number.

ADDISON William Addison & Ann Stuart family (00373)

AITKEN Never a Day So Bright. Kate Aitken (00375)

ALLISON Descendants of Wm. M. Allison & Elizabeth Lister. R929.2 ALLIS CESH (00376)

ALMAS (ALMOST), LAND, GURNETT, MORRISON & HILL. Index to data base. (00377)

ARTHUR The Round Table. Quarterly Newsletter. Clan Arthur. (01972)

ASHBAUGH David Ashbaugh (00378)

AUDETTE Family of Antoine Audette & Auralie Bernard. R929.20971352 AUDET WAD CESH (00379)

AWDE The Awde Family History (00380)

BAGLEY The Bagley Family History (00381)

BAGSHAW William Bagshaw & Sarah Bolton. Genealogy charts (00382)

BAKER Baker Family History - Somersetshire to Wentworth. Book 1: Turner. Lyons, Baker (00383)

BALL William Ball & Descendants. R929.209713 BALL CESH (00384)

BANFIELD Banfield Family History (00385)

BARKER - JOSLYN The Barker-Joslyn Family Tree Climber (00386)

BARKLEY Remarkable World of Frances Barkley. 1769-1845. (00148)

BARNARDO Thomas John Barnardo 1845-1905. “The Barnardo Homes” (00387)

BARNES A Family Named Barnes (00388)

BARRETT Barrett Newsletter #14 - 91 (00390)

BARRETT Correspondence List & Registry Index (00389)

BATSON The Batsons of Northeastern United States. R929.209713 BAT CESH (02458)

BAUMAN Family Records of the Descendants of Pioneer Joseph Bauman also some records of David and Henry Bauman (00391)

BEACH Beach in Canada - A Pictorial Genealogy (00392)

BEAMER John Beamer 1759-1854 (00393)

BECK Beck Family. F.W. Beck 1817-1904 & Eve Schwingel (00394)

BERCZY William Berczy - Co-founder of Toronto (00395)

BERCZY William Berczy 1744-1813 (00396)

BETZNER Betzner Family in Canada 1799-1970 (00397)

BIEHN Biehn Family (00398)

BIEHN Biehn/Bean Family of Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada 1700-1986 (00399)

BISHOP Ancestral Line of Absalom Bishop Sr. 1627-1926 (00400)

BLAGDON Blagdon Family History (00401)

BLAIN The Blain Family Newsletter Vol. 1 1981(00402)

BOCK Frederick Bock (BUCK) 1760-1831 & Maria Reichard 1765-1830. (00404)

BOND Descendants of Silas Bond (00405)

BOUDREAU Ancestors of Exzlia Elizabeth Boudreau. Branch lines of Boudreau, Senezaque, Senet & Menard. Vol. 1 (00406)

BOWINS Bowins Family - J. Bowins Jr. 1839-1925 & E. Payne (00407)

BOWLES The Bowles Family (00408)

BOWMAN The Man Who Could Do Anything. The Story of Simeon Bowman. (00409)

BRIGHAM-DUNLOP The Brigham Dunlop Family 1705-1995 (00410)

BROWN Brown Family History. Haldimand County 1805-1898 (00411)

BRUBACHER see MARTIN

BUTCHER Descendants of John Butcher & Sarah Shank. R929.2 BUTCH CESC (00412)

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

Delayed Branch Openings

Kenilworth Branch - Roof Repairs

OGS Collection Family Histories

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