August 27, 2014 | 16th Edition
library update NCPL adds some hoopla to Exploration Destination The North Canton Public Library (NCPL) of Ohio featured hoopla during the 2014 Main Street Festival hosted by the North Canton Chamber of Commerce on August 16th. Partnering at the event with NCPL, whose theme for the festival was Exploration Destination, we found the street festival and the hoopla booth to both be well attended. The hoopla team was invited by the wonderful staff at NCPL to join their tent and help spread the word about hoopla to the community. We were excited to find out that the theme of the event for NCPL was Exploration Destination. It was the perfect fit with one of hoopla’s primary goals: to provide library partners and their patrons with a digital delivery model that expands exploration potential, and the possibilities available in the choice of movies, music, and more.
The hoopla crew stayed busy all day introducing hoopla to community members, while also helping people to browse the collections on the app. The hoopla team was able to sign up 70+ new users — all of whom were placed in a drawing for a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite. Plus, the NCPL was also able to sign up several new patrons, and renew many existing patrons’ library cards. (And certainly, today, that one lucky winning patron is now using their grand prize to access hoopla!)
Community members were very interested to learn about hoopla and what the platform has to offer. “Completely free to use through the library” caught real attention, with some new users bringing back other family members to sign up for their own hoopla account! After patrons signed up, we gave each a quick run through on how to borrow content and demonstrating hoopla’s ease-of-use features. All in all, with a marching band playing, kids’ dance party, and crowded funnel cake stands, the day was fun and successful for everyone. library update | 1
hooplaU Schools University Students on Today’s Public Libraries hooplaU is quickly becoming an eye-opening experience for university students as to what is being offered through the public libraries of today. Since a public library card isn’t something students readily think to have when the college library is offered to them right on campus, hooplaU is helping to focus students on additional resources provided to them through local public libraries; those that may not be offered at the college library. hoopla is one of these service resources, where patrons can access music, movies, and more. hoopla has been making appearances on university campuses, alongside the nearby public libraries, to introduce hoopla, and sign students up as library cardholders in the process. The participating public libraries are definitely seeing a spark of interest from the students in obtaining a public library card—especially when they find out that hoopla is free and open 24/7 for meeting their digital desires. Their new local public library card is like a passport for them to experience, explore, and enjoy hoopla, and everything else the library has to offer. Presenting the public library card in this manner to university students is dramatically helping library systems boost new patron card sign ups, as well as, helping to increase their hoopla digital usage. Students love the platform, and are exploring their local libraries for a content supplement when content at the campus library may be checked out. 2 | library update
If your library is interested in holding a hooplaU event, please feel free to contact your hoopla coordinator for a complete and easy blueprint, so you, too, can join in the success! Here’s a list of a just a few upcoming hoopla University events: • 8/29/2014 Tiffin-Seneca Public Library at the Tiffin University campus • 9/4/2014 Wood County District Library at the Bowling Green State University campus • 9/5/2014 Kalamazoo Public Library at the Western Michigan University campus • 9/11/2014 Mentor Public Library at the Lakeland Community College campus