Get Your Library in Your Pocket with Hoopla: A Fun and Easy Way to Borrow Digital Content

Have you heard of Hoopla? Hoopla is a digital media service offered by our local public libraries that allows us to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics and TV shows to enjoy on your computer, tablet, or phone – and even your TV!

Hoopla is the digital service of Midwest Tape, a leading provider of entertainment media products and services: DVDs, CDs, audiobooks and shelf-ready solutions, to public libraries across North America for over a quarter of a century. Our purpose has always been to partner with libraries in delivering the best content to patrons in the most streamlined manner possible. Through the years, we’ve cultivated a growing passion for the evolving public library. Hoopla digital builds on that passion by providing public libraries of all sizes the ability to offer patrons an enormous selection of digital video (movies and TV shows), music, audiobooks, ebooks and comics to their patrons. For these libraries, we’ve pioneered a unique model that allows patrons to borrow content immediately, removing artificial availability constraints and maximizing the power of digital content and Internet distribution. Technologically, we focus on the latest browser, phone, tablet, and TV products to deliver the best possible experience to our user – our passion – the public library patron.

We have a ROKU TV and it was very easy to download. On their website, it shows that you can download it on an android tv, apple tv, chromecast, fire tv, app store, google play and amazon. Basically, it is available everywhere. After downloading, you will need to put in your library account info, so make sure to have that on hand.

You pick your library and that is where you enter in your library card number.

You can read the official statement from our Columbus Metropolitan libraries in regards to Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) here and from Worthington Libraries here.

With our library events shutting down and it being suggested to stay home, this is a very useful service! One, you don’t have to step into the library (very sad about this, but obviously staying healthy and safe is most important), but you can still get the benefits that the library. Two, there is no waiting, titles can be streamed immediately, or downloaded to phones or tablets for offline enjoyment later.

They have hundreds of thousands of titles to choose from, with more being added daily. Basically, hoopla is like having your public library at your fingertips. Anytime. Anywhere.

If you’re wondering if it is easy to use, yes. It is very easy to use and very well organized!