Posted by Anne M on Friday, Dec 3, 2021
Beginning Tuesday, December 7th, hoopla will be available at the Iowa City Public Library.
A digital library collection, hoopla offers over one million titles of movies, music, eBooks, audiobooks, and comics. Find a great selection of holiday movies, ACORN TV, movie soundtracks, science fiction and romance reads, and comics from DC, Marvel, Image, and much, much more. Everything you need to brave a Midwestern winter. Best of all? No holds.
ICPL cardholders that live in Iowa City, Hills, Lone Tree, University Heights, and rural Johnson County can use hoopla by going to hoopladigital.com. To sign up, you’ll need your library card number, the password/pin for your card, and a valid email address. ICCSD students can use hoopla with their AIM card as long as they live in ICPL's service area.
Users can watch, listen, or read up to 8 borrows a month. Apps are available for iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire. hoopla also supports Roku, FireTV, AppleTV, and Chromecast as well as Amazon Alexa for music and audiobooks. Instructions on getting set up are available on the hoopla website. hoopla offers a variety of titles in over 75 different languages including Spanish, French, and Hindi.
Once you borrow a title, you have a specific period of time to watch it. Depending on the format, borrowing periods are:
- Movies and television: 3 days (for TV, you borrow by episode, not season)
- Music: One week (full albums)
- eBooks, audiobooks, and comics: Three weeks
hoopla is powered by donations to the Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation.
Interested in signing up? Learn how to get started with our Signing up for hoopla video. For more information or assistance, give us a call at 319-356-5200 or contact us through email or chat.
I feel like I’m reading a lot of fiction that takes on how to find meaning. These books begin with a divorce or a job loss or the death of a family member and the protagonist is trying to make sense of themselves now that their vision of who they are is no longer reality. “Creation Lake” is also about meaning, but “Sadie,” our narrator, is never who she is at any given moment. There is no sense of self—no past sense—no future self-aspirations. She is a spy that works for some multinational corporation or the like and she is who her alias is: someone who doesn’t really exist. This time she is infiltrating a rural French group opposed to corporate industrial agriculture and European Union trade agricultural regulations. It is just a job, one that involves building relationships, playing a part, instigating actions, and hacking emails. It’s this last task that moves Sadie to question herself for among the emails are missives from Bruno Lacombe, a hero of this group cooperative, who lives in caves and writes eloquently about the loss of things that make us human (I cannot detail the entire essence of his philosophy—you’ll have to read it). Sadie is so strong in her facade and skeptical of pretty much everything—does she even want meaning? This is a really compelling book. -Anne M