JUNE 2016 | 25TH EDITION
LIBRARY UPDATE WE SPEAK LIBRARY, TO SIMPLIFY THE FUTURE Ask and you shall receive, my friends! We at Midwest Tape only work with libraries. We continuously strive to listen to and learn from our customers, as we work to develop and consistently enhance and improve the services we provide to meet the needs you share with us. hoopla digital is no different. Technology, however, continues to evolve at an extremely rapid pace, making our communications with you even more necessary and important. As hoopla evolves to meet the changing demands of the industry, your community and library patrons, we use avenues such as our blog and social media to keep you informed and engaged. Many of you have shared that you would prefer to have this information delivered to you personally, as opposed to having to source multiple outlets for information. For this reason,
we have opted to bring back your hoopla digital newsletter! While we will continue to maintain our blog and Courtney’s Corner for ongoing engagement, we plan to bring everything together as one package and deliver it to you in newsletter form every other month! Here in our newsletter, you will find information about the development of Kids Mode, view recent updates in our “Tech Talk” section, take a walk through our content additions in our New & Notable Content section as well as find links to our most current marketing collateral for your library’s use…designed to help you reach your patrons and community with news about hoopla digital!
KIDS MODE! SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN’S LIBRARIANS Probably one of the most important enhancements to the hoopla digital service this year has been the development of Kids Mode - a multi-format, digital media experience designed especially for kids and their families, as requested by children’s librarians throughout North America. Our hope in providing hoopla for kids is that we instill in children a love for all their local library can provide, and that a learning and growing experience takes place along the way.
In addition to Kids Mode, we wanted to better reach and better support children’s librarians with our Marketing efforts, as well. Recently, we provided our libraries a full children’s package,
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