I don’t have the same level of knowledge on the costs of Kanopy mostly because it doesn’t garner the same level of attention in our system so it isn’t a topic that’s come up. But I’ll check in on that. Hoopla came up cause we have cut the borrows down from 10 a month to 6 and it’s now only for county residents not reciprocal borrowers as well. And we often don’t have some of the best items available because of the additional costs.
Ah, that makes sense. I knew that HD limits downloads based on library policies, just didn’t connect that that was due to higher cost, but that’s important context for what I’m talking about as one of the reasons I recommend some of these services is that using them means you’re using your library. (Very important in a time when libraries are being defunded.)
Yes very true. We’re all happy to have Hoopla in my system it’s just so hard to plan around because it’s not a flat cost and we know there are though choices to make because we’d love to be able to offer more and better items through them but that only drives higher costs. I just wish they stopped the silliness of needing to purchase “new copies” so often. It might not be all on them, i know distributers are still very weird with all of the e-resources but it’s still silly.
Oh, that’s good to know. How does it compare to Kanopy?
I don’t have the same level of knowledge on the costs of Kanopy mostly because it doesn’t garner the same level of attention in our system so it isn’t a topic that’s come up. But I’ll check in on that. Hoopla came up cause we have cut the borrows down from 10 a month to 6 and it’s now only for county residents not reciprocal borrowers as well. And we often don’t have some of the best items available because of the additional costs.
Ah, that makes sense. I knew that HD limits downloads based on library policies, just didn’t connect that that was due to higher cost, but that’s important context for what I’m talking about as one of the reasons I recommend some of these services is that using them means you’re using your library. (Very important in a time when libraries are being defunded.)
Yes very true. We’re all happy to have Hoopla in my system it’s just so hard to plan around because it’s not a flat cost and we know there are though choices to make because we’d love to be able to offer more and better items through them but that only drives higher costs. I just wish they stopped the silliness of needing to purchase “new copies” so often. It might not be all on them, i know distributers are still very weird with all of the e-resources but it’s still silly.