Hamilton Public Library

The new Hamilton Public Library will provide consistent services throughout the city, taking neighborhood needs into consideration. The primary difficult in unifying library services lies not in the pronouncement that such unification will occur but in the enormous number of administrative details required in order to accomplish this task. For example, one goal of the new library system is to reach out to children in schools and to let them know what the library can offer. As a result, the number of staff providing children's services has to increase so that schools can be visited where no such visits occurred before. Since no additional staff will be added to the overall library system, staff have to be redeployed and some services may be ( www.hpl.ca )