What's New

An Introduction to the Library Community

To foster growth and collaboration among our library partners, hoopla is developing a Library Community. This Community will be a safe location our project manager, technical contacts and any other library staff members can go to provide feedback, submit ideas to peers, and stay in the loop with hoopla developments. With links to onboarding documents and promotional materials, the Community also offers an enhanced one-stop shop for continued support of the hoopla service at partner libraries. 

Currently, we are in a "beta testing" phase, and making adjustments to the Community. Our goal is to roll out the Community to partner librarians in 2015. Please check back soon for more details!

This is the Library Community menu, with access to troubleshooting/knowledge documents, onboarding and promotional pieces.

This is the Library Community menu, with access to troubleshooting/knowledge documents, onboarding and promotional pieces.

Community Chatter feed. Stay in the loop with updates on what's going on in hoopla or the Community.

Community Chatter feed. Stay in the loop with updates on what's going on in hoopla or the Community.

hoopla digital Temporary Outage Updated 4:15 PM ET

hoopla Partner Libraries,

Update: 4:15 PM ET: hoopladigital.com and mobile apps appear to be operating at close to normal. Please let us know if you are seeing any unusual behavior when visiting the site, or using our mobile apps. Thank you for your patience.

We wanted to ensure you are aware of the temporary service interruption on our patron website, hoopladigital.com.  The website is currently blocking patron access to hoopla digital, mobile apps are experiencing somewhat spotty functionality. Our hoopla team will continue to respond to any patron inquiries that they receive.

Our developers continue to work toward a resolution, and we are hopeful this interruption will end soon.  This effects only the patron site, mobile apps appear to have mostly normal functionality.

Please stay tuned to this site for further updates.

Thank you.

Discover the Buzz Behind Burt's Bees

In Burt's Buzz, Shapiro takes us into the reclusive backwoods world of beekeeper Shavitz, still committed to living off the land in Maine, as he has since the 1970s, in a renovated turkey coop with no running water. Shapiro explores Shavitz's peculiar relationship with the company he co-founded with Roxanne Quimby. 

The birth of Burt's Bees and its emergence as a lucrative brand may be the stuff of legend, but it's also contentious: Shavitz sold his shares decades ago, reaping virtually nothing from the company's financial success; yet he remains contracted to promote the brand, travelling the world making public appearances. Wise and wry, absent-minded and unflappable, Shavitz is a fascinating subject.

Borrow this title instantly from hoopla digital today:  http://bitly.com/1xpQyar

Celebrate the Holidays with hoopla!

"Holidays  with hoopla,” is so much more than a celebration of the Holiday Season, it’s a celebration of you as librarians and how you make every day special for patrons!

You’ll see tons of gifts for you to share with your patrons this season – eight Holiday music collections, and piles of movie and audiobook Holiday memory-makers to experience, explore and enjoy. Plus, we’ve included a special Holiday gift salute especially for you!

Take advantage of “Holidays  with hoopla,”  and become a “Holiday Hero” this year.  As patrons come knocking at your door for movies, music and more, you’re sure to have plenty to fill all the new gadgets they’ll be getting from the store.

“Holidays with hoopla,” magazine is available in digital form immediately, and will be delivered to your library in print any day now. Be sure to watch for it!

hoopla Attends Directors' Summit in Chattanooga

hoopla digital is proud to both attend and be a sponsor at this year's Library Journal Directors' Summit in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  Among the speakers are representatives from two hoopla partner libraries. Library Journal 2014 Librarian of the Year Corinne Hill, Executive Director at Chattanooga Public Library. Also represented is Library Journal's Library of the Year for 2014, Edmonton Public Library.  EPL Deputy CEO Pilar Martinez is also on hand to discuss the continued evolution of the library and how it fits into the community of the future.  

If you are attending the summit, be sure to connect social media using the hashtag #LJSummit14.