[Michlib-l] Hoopla

[Kathy Petlewski]

At Plymouth District Library, we began offering Hoopla to patrons last March. You pay by the individual download, but patrons will have access to the entire Hoopla library. As a library you are able to block titles above a certain cost threshold, or individual titles. (We blocked Girl on the Train movie since it wasn't the movie people thought it would be.) We set a maximum number of downloads of any format per patron at the beginning so we could better determine costs to the library. Our initial number was 4 per patron per month. About 20 patrons per month were hitting the maximum. 


In June we doubled that number to 8 per month, knowing it was summer vacation time. We still have about 20 per month hitting that maximum. E-audiobooks are the most popular items downloaded, followed by movies, music, e-books, tv shows and comics. They range in price from $.99 per item to $3.99 or so, with movies tending to cost the most. We sent Hoopla a deposit amount and each month's usage is then deducted from that. 


Hoopla is NOT for first-run movies or best-selling fiction e-books. I have found their real strength to be in their non-fiction e-books, vast music library, children's & family movies, and e-audiobooks. 


Please contact me directly if you have additional questions I can answer. 


Kathy 


Kathy Petlewski 
Electronic Resources Librarian 
Plymouth District Library 
223 S. Main St. 
Plymouth, MI 48170 

734-453-0750, ext 208 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Cathy Sullivan Seblonka" <cathys at uproc.lib.mi.us> 
To: cathys at uproc.lib.mi.us 
Cc: michlib-l at mcls.org, "everyone" <everyone at lists.tln.lib.mi.us> 
Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 9:41:28 AM 
Subject: [Michlib-l] Hoopla 

Do any public libraries in Michigan offer Hoopla to their patrons? 

I need to understand the process of doing so, the cost to the library, and 
whether your patrons like this service. 

We already offer Overdrive and Scola through Superiorland Library 
Cooperative. 

Thank you. Cathy 

Cathy Sullivan Seblonka 
Collection Development/Reference Librarian 
Peter White Public Library 
217 N. Front St. 
Marquette, MI 49855 
906-226-4309 
cathys at pwpl.info 

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