<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>At Plymouth District Library, we began offering Hoopla to patrons last March. You pay by the individual download, but patrons will have access to the entire Hoopla library. As a library you are able to block titles above a certain cost threshold, or individual titles. (We blocked <i>Girl on the Train</i> movie since it wasn't the movie people thought it would be.) We set a maximum number of downloads of any format per patron at the beginning so we could better determine costs to the library. Our initial number was 4 per patron per month. About 20 patrons per month were hitting the maximum. <div><br></div><div>In June we doubled that number to 8 per month, knowing it was summer vacation time. We still have about 20 per month hitting that maximum. E-audiobooks are the most popular items downloaded, followed by movies, music, e-books, tv shows and comics. They range in price from $.99 per item to $3.99 or so, with movies tending to cost the most. We sent Hoopla a deposit amount and each month's usage is then deducted from that.<div><br></div><div>Hoopla is NOT for first-run movies or best-selling fiction e-books. I have found their real strength to be in their non-fiction e-books, vast music library, children's & family movies, and e-audiobooks.</div><div><br></div><div>Please contact me directly if you have additional questions I can answer.</div><div><br></div><div>Kathy<br><br><div><span name="x"></span>Kathy Petlewski<br>Electronic Resources Librarian<br>Plymouth District Library<br>223 S. Main St.<br>Plymouth, MI 48170<br><br>734-453-0750, ext 208<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Cathy Sullivan Seblonka" <cathys@uproc.lib.mi.us><br><b>To: </b>cathys@uproc.lib.mi.us<br><b>Cc: </b>michlib-l@mcls.org, "everyone" <everyone@lists.tln.lib.mi.us><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, February 3, 2017 9:41:28 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Michlib-l] Hoopla<br><br>Do any public libraries in Michigan offer Hoopla to their patrons?<br><br>I need to understand the process of doing so, the cost to the library, and<br>whether your patrons like this service.<br><br>We already offer Overdrive and Scola through Superiorland Library<br>Cooperative.<br><br>Thank you. Cathy<br><br>Cathy Sullivan Seblonka<br>Collection Development/Reference Librarian<br>Peter White Public Library<br>217 N. Front St.<br>Marquette, MI 49855<br>906-226-4309<br>cathys@pwpl.info<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Michlib-l mailing list<br>Michlib-l@mcls.org<br>http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l<br></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>