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Volunteer and make a difference in the lives of the homebound.

What is the Visiting Library Service?

The Visiting Library Service provides a wide range of library materials to Hamilton residents who are homebound for three months or longer due to illness, injury or disability. This valuable service for the homebound is made possible through the efforts of volunteers who deliver library materials.

The Visiting Library Service volunteer is matched to homebound customers who are located as close as possible to the volunteer. Once a month, during an assigned delivery week, the volunteer will pick up and deliver the customers' pre-selected and bagged materials from a convenient library branch. Additionally, the volunteer will return any completed materials back to the library branch.

The Visiting Library Service volunteer provides a very personal link between the library and the homebound that is enriching lives, and fostering independence, inclusion and a life-long love of learning amongst those who would not otherwise have access to all the library has to offer.

If you are...

• 19 years of age and older
• able to devote one morning, afternoon or evening per month
• able to provide your own means of delivery
• physically capable of lifting and carrying bags of library material
• reliable and trustworthy
• possessing good interpersonal and communication skills

Please call the Volunteer Coordinator at (905) 546-3200 x3620 or email volunteer@hpl.ca.        

Download an application form.

For more information contact:

Volunteer Coordinator

Hamilton Public Library

(905) 546-3200 x3620