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A layered, eye-level shot focuses on rows of hardcover and paperback books arranged face-out on modern display shelves within a bright, open-concept public library. The foreground features close-up, slightly out-of-focus book covers including titles like My Ackee Tree and Living and Loving, while the midground displays a long, well-illuminated shelf holding fiction and non-fiction titles beneath small genre signage placards. The background reveals the expansive, multi-level architectural interior of the facility, characterized by exposed concrete columns, high ceilings, a distant staircase, and a large, colourful artistic mural depicting stylized figures mounted on a concrete wall under cool, even indoor lighting.

News

Hamilton Public Library to Shorten Loan Periods, Cut Wait Times

by Joey Coleman9 hours ago

HPL says shorter borrowing times will get high-demand items into more hands more often.

A wide shot captures a library board meeting where over a dozen participants sit along a U-shaped configuration of grey folding tables. Attendees, dressed in business-casual attire, interface with laptops and documents under bright, linear overhead fluorescent lights supplemented by acoustic ceiling panels in shades of green and blue. The background features white walls mounted with flat-screen monitors, an exit door, and a decorative partition wall composed of vertically stacked book pages next to a doorway labelled Wentworth.

Front Page, Hamilton Library Board, News

Hamilton Public Library Board Expects Large Crowd for June 18 Special Meeting on Central Library Drug Use Response

by Joey Coleman12 hours agoJune 11, 2026

Front Page, Hamilton Library Board

Hamilton Public Library Plans July Reopening of Central Branch Sunday Hours

by Joey ColemanMay 29, 2026May 29, 2026

Hamilton Library Board

Hamilton Library’s 2023 Operating Deficit of $687,160 Driven by Security and Social Support Costs

by Joey ColemanMay 15, 2026

Interior of a library showing rows of empty white bookshelves and green carpeting. The area has been cleared of books and appears to be in the process of being dismantled.

Hamilton Library Board

Hamilton Central Library Children’s Area Moved to Second Floor Following ‘Adult Disruptions’

by Joey ColemanApril 12, 2026

Joey’s Notepad: Smart Move, Reserved Seating for Delegations at the Library Board

by Joey ColemanMarch 16, 2026March 16, 2026

Front Page, Transcriptions

TRANSCRIPT: Hamilton Library Board Member Says HPL ‘Can Be a Library or Safe Consumption Site, Cannot Be Both’

by Joey ColemanMarch 13, 2026March 13, 2026

Coleman's Notes, Front Page

COLEMAN: The Library Board Refuses to Hear Delegations on New Access Policy. That’s a Problem

by Joey ColemanMarch 10, 2026March 10, 2026

Front Page, Hamilton Library Board, News

Valid Library Card Required to Enter Hamilton’s Central Library Beginning March 16

by Joey ColemanMarch 6, 2026March 11, 2026

Hamilton Library Board

Hamilton Library Board Hears of Crisis at Central Library, Possible Closure

by Joey ColemanFebruary 19, 2026March 6, 2026