February hoopla Happenings

Library patrons who use hoopla have a lot to be excited about this month.

February marks the first 2023 availability of Bonus Borrows! This means there are hundreds of titles available (in audiobook, eBook, comics, movies, and television) to patrons without using any of their monthly Instant borrows, and free for libraries as well. This promotion lasts all month, so encourage patrons to take advantage—it’s a perfect opportunity to try something different, or to enjoy more of what they love.

It also brings with it a new Spotlight Selection for the hoopla Graphic Novel Book Club! This quarter we’re reading Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – The Last Ronin, written by TMNT cocreators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Set in a post-apocalyptic New York City, one surviving Turtle fights a seemingly unwinnable battle against an entire army. It’s a fitting, satisfying swan song for the beloved series, and we hope you’ll read along with us. Find everything you need to host your book club meeting on our Graphic Novel Book Club Hub, including a fantastic Q&A with Kevin Eastman.

Finally, we have several new additions to hoopla BingePass that are specifically for kids. With these new collections (The Reading Corner, Growing Up: Social-Emotional Learning for Kids, STEAM Powered Kids, Learn About the World: People, Places, and Holidays, and Cuentos para niños en español), little ones and their grown-ups have plenty of great options to engage with entertaining content that helps them to learn and grow. And with BingePass, an entire collection is available for seven days with just one hoopla Instant borrow.

And of course, this is all in addition to a new batch of Movies of the Month and all the hundreds of thousands of titles that are instantly available on hoopla for patrons to borrow and enjoy. To help you spread the word, we’ve put together social media assets and other materials available for you to download from the hoopla Resource Center.

Graphic Novel Book Club – Fall Edition

hoopla is pleased to announce the latest edition of our Graphic Novel Book Club! The new Spotlight Selection is Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal, written by G. Willow Wilson with art by Adrian Alphona. Kamala Khan is an ordinary teenager and a superhero fangirl who suddenly discovers her own superpowers. Along with being a great story on its own, this is a perfect time for superhero fans to get into Kamala’s story, as a six-episode series is coming to Disney+ later this year. We have put together plenty of materials to facilitate Book Club meetings, including a discussion guide, a Q&A with a Marvel editor, and more, all available on our hoopla Book Club Hub. We also have assets to help you spread the word to your patrons on our hoopla Resource Center!

We hope you and your patrons will enjoy Ms. Marvel as much as we did. We encourage you to read along and share your thoughts on social media with the hashtag #hooplaGNBC, and tag us @hoopladigital.

May on hoopla: Bonus Borrows and Graphic Novel Book Club

April showers may bring May flowers, but May brings its own delights on hoopla. First up is the return of our popular Bonus Borrows program! For the entire month, patrons can browse and borrow from this collection of hundreds of titles without using any of their monthly Instant Borrows, and at no cost to libraries. We’ve made assets available on the hoopla Resource Center to make it easy for you to get the word out, both in your library and on your social media pages.

May also means a new edition of the hoopla Graphic Novel Book Club! This quarter’s Spotlight Selection is Sheets, written and drawn by Brenna Thummler, and we’ve curated a list of additional recommendations to accommodate readers of any taste. You can find resources to use for your library’s book club, including a discussion guide and an exclusive author Q&A, on the hoopla Book Club Hub. We hope patrons will read along and share their thoughts with us and each other using the hashtag #hooplaGNBC on social media. This edition of the Graphic Novel Book Club will be active from May 1 through July 31.

Introducing the Graphic Novel Book Club!

hoopla is excited to announce the first-ever edition of the Graphic Novel Book Club! Taking a page from the popularity of our regular Book Club, the Graphic Novel Book Club is designed to engage patrons of all ages, just in time for summer reading. Our Spotlight Selection is Runaways Vol. 1: Pride & Joy, written by Brian K. Vaughan and with artwork by Adrian Alphona. This acclaimed graphic novel follows six teens as they discover their parents are super-villains and strive to turn the tables. You’ll find the assets you need to spread the word on our Resource Center, and more Graphic Novel Book Club info on our Book Club Hub, including four additional recommended titles. We hope you and your patrons will read along with us, and share your thoughts on social media with #hooplaGNBC!