Informational description about hoopla and a quick look at the visual layout.

1. Hoopla Information
What’s the hoopla all about?

2. Hoopla vs. other platforms
Hoopla has an excellent base for movies, television and music.
10,000 - 14,000 movies. Netflix has around 5,500.(quote from hoopla
representative)
New music Fridays - add new music albums every Friday.
New movies are added roughly every month. Not on a set schedule. Add when they
are available.
Hoopla has over 600,000 titles on their platform
There are no holds, it is open for everyone to pick any title.

3. What is available to our librarian:
Staff training resources
Email campaigns
Social Networking promotional materials
Other promotional materials

4. How patron will check out materials
The hoopla link will be on the landing page of your library website, next to your
Sunflower eLibrary link.
The link takes your patron to https://www.hoopladigital.com/home
Patron will set up an email address & password in order to create an account.
Patron will then choose the library they are affiliated with as their library.
Finally, click confirmation button.
Patron is now on hoopla, there is a red button at the top that says I can borrow 6(or
however many is preset) items for the month.

5. Types of formats
Books/Audiobooks/
Comic Books: 21 Days
(Sunflower has 14 day limit)

6. Types of formats
Music: 7 Days

7. Types of formats
Movies/TV shows : 48 hours

8. Here is an example of a patron checking out:
All 6 items in a month:
Notice the one week deadline of
3/2/18
3/6/18
3/7/18
This patron borrowed new material on
different days throughout the month.

9. Similar, but not exactly the same as Sunflower
Sunflower eLibrary offers ebooks & audiobooks, and those are offered in Hoopla, as
well. Audiobooks are Hoopla’s big circulation stats. Hoopla has comic books/graphic
novels, music, television episodes and movies, as well.
Will this eliminate Sunflower eLibrary? ABSOLUTELY NOT - Will supplement the
current ebook/audiobook items, and provide our patrons who are movie watchers with
multiple services.
You will receive monthly patron usage stats, just like Sunflower.
Hoopla is completely scalable budget-wise. CKLS can start with a basic 6 lends a
month per patron, and increase the amount if necessary. It follows the pay per use
model. The more our patrons benefit from this platform, the more CKLS will budget.
Plan to start small and increase if necessary.

10. Questions?
Comments?
(lots more information on the handout
in your packet)
*Acquire digital content, incorporate digital content into patron lives. (November,2016)