April 2, 2014 | 6th Edition
Southwest Florida Reading Festival brings in 20,000 in Lee County. hoopla on-site to attract new cardholders. The Harborside Event Center and Centennial Park in downtown Fort Myers saw all ages excited about meeting their favorite authors and getting to know what services their library offers. The Lee County Library System graciously hosted hoopla and over 20,000 Fort Myers residents for their 15th annual Southwest Florida Reading Festival on Saturday, March 15, 2014. hoopla had a large interactive booth adjacent to library staff to engage the attendees about the exciting content the library offers through hoopla.
a demo of hoopla and to make sure their information was current with library staff, to continue using these services. Altogether, it was a very rewarding day for both the Lee County Library System and hoopla digital, immersed in the frenzy of thousands of excited and appreciative library cardholders. The library signed up over 70 brand new library cardholders at the six-hour event. hoopla registered 202 new Lee County Library System users that immediately began discovering and borrowing instantly available content. Please contact your hoopla representative if you have a public event planned that you would like hoopla to be a part of.
Library staff had laptops dialed into their ILS to issue new library cards remotely to attendees that watched live demos of hoopla, if they did not already have cards. A monitor and speakers in the booth provided entertainment by showing samples of the various content formats available to the attendees immediately upon registering for hoopla. The library staff commented on how successful and fluid the booth and this new card/hoopla registration process was for attendees. At one point, crowds stood forty people deep just to receive library update | 1