What’s With All the hoopla?

Stream music, movies, TV shows, audiobooks, and more with hoopla.

Thousands of movies, TV shows, audiobooks, e-books, comic books, and music albums are at your fingertips with hooplaopens a new window.

Take the library with you wherever you go. You can stream content on your computer browser, smartphone and tablet (iOS 6 and Android 4.0+ or higher), or even your TV. Items can be downloaded for viewing offline on the hoopla app.

hoo can use it? How does it work?

All you need to get started is:

Borrowing Basics

  • Lending is based on titles per month instead of available copies, so you never have to wait in line.
  • E-books, comics, and audiobooks are available for 21 days.
  • Music albums are available for 7 days.
  • Movies and TV shows are available for 72 hours (3 days) after borrowing.
  • When your lending period is over, hoopla will automatically remove the item from your list so you don’t have to worry about being late.

What’s Available?

hoopla’s collection is updated weekly. With hundreds of titles in each genre, there are sure to be favourites for music, movie, TV and book lovers of all ages. Visit their websiteopens a new window to browse the collection and latest additions.

Extra help: Watch our how-to tutorial on Niche Academy

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