Discover Your Digital Library: Hoopla and CloudLibrary at CMRLS

 

Discover Your Digital Library: 

Hoopla & CloudLibrary at CMRLS

Your library card opens more doors than you might think—no building required! With Hoopla and CloudLibrary, CMRLS patrons can enjoy thousands of books, audiobooks, movies, and more right from their phone, tablet, or computer. Whether you're at home, on vacation, or waiting in line, your library is always with you.

What is Hoopla?

Hoopla is an on-demand digital service that gives you instant access to a huge collection of entertainment and reading materials—no waitlists required.

With Hoopla, you can explore:

• eBooks
• Audiobooks
• Comics & graphic novels
• Movies & TV shows
• BingePasses

Everything is available immediately, so if you find it, you can borrow it—no holds, no waiting.

Check out the details:

• Monthly limit: 5 checkouts per month
• Loan periods:
• Movies/TV: 3 days
• eBooks, audiobooks, comics: 21 days

Great for families: Hoopla offers a Kids Mode feature, allowing you to filter content so children only see age-appropriate materials. It’s a simple way to create a safe, kid-friendly browsing experience.

Are you running low on checkouts? 

Hoopla’s BingePass lets you unlock an entire collection of content for one checkout—giving you 7 days of unlimited access to that collection.

With BingePass, you can enjoy:

• Streaming video collections (like popular educational or entertainment series)
• Digital magazines
• Kids’ content and learning platforms

It’s perfect for a weekend deep dive or trying something new without using multiple borrows!

What is CloudLibrary?

CloudLibrary is your go-to for eBooks and audiobooks. That means you can browse, borrow, and place holds on popular titles—just like you would with physical books.

With CloudLibrary, you’ll find:

• Bestselling eBooks
• Audiobooks for all ages
• New releases and classics

Check out the details:

• Monthly limit: 2 checkouts per month
• Loan period: 21 days per item
• Holds available for popular titles

Bonus Feature: CloudLibrary allows you to store your digital library card right in the app, making it easy to access your account anytime without needing your physical card.

Family-friendly option: CloudLibrary also includes a Kids Mode, helping caregivers guide children toward age-appropriate books and audiobooks.

Why Use Both?

Hoopla and CloudLibrary complement each other perfectly:

• Hoopla = instant access, no waiting
• CloudLibrary = a larger curated collection with holds

Using both gives you the best chance of finding exactly what you want, when you want it.

Count It Toward Your Summer Reading!

Reading (and listening!) through Hoopla and CloudLibrary absolutely counts toward your CMRLS reading goals.

So, whether you're participating in a reading challenge or our Read Every Day in June initiative, your digital checkouts count just like physical books! Audiobooks during a road trip, eBooks before bed, or even comics on your lunch break—all of it helps you stay on track and build a daily reading habit.

Get Started Today

All you need is your CMRLS library card and a device. Download the apps, sign in, and start exploring your digital library anytime, anywhere.

Your next great read (or watch, or listen) is just a tap away!

Consumer Health Complete

 

What is Consumer Health Complete, and how can it benefit you? Consumer Health Complete is a database that gives you access to hundreds of full-text journals, health reports, medical images and diagrams, magazines, consumer health pamphlets from the CDC, FDA, and others, animations with audio descriptions and transcripts, a medical dictionary, plus so much more. Perhaps the best part is that it is designed with the average consumer in mind, with health and wellness information specifically geared to help users gain a better overall understanding of key medical and health-related topics. Whether you are a mom trying to get fact-based information on bipolar disorder for her child, or a student writing a paper on concussions in sports, Consumer Health Complete will help you get valuable information that is vetted and reliant on facts, rather than trusting the information found from a quick Google search.

To access Consumer Health Complete, you will first need to visit our CMRLS website at https://cmrls.lib.ms.us/. Once there, hover over Digital Library and look down to see Virtual Reference Collection. You will then see Consumer Health Complete, the second option down the list. See the screenshot below for visual directions.

Let’s explore a bit of what the user experience on Consumer Health Complete looks like. For our example, we will be looking for information on concussions to write a research paper.

To start, find the search bar at the top of the screen. You can search there, or you can do an advanced search by clicking “Advanced Search” to the right.

Alternatively, Consumer Health Complete has grouped topics together under the “Explore Topics” section, which can be found by scrolling down on the main home page. This is an easy and direct way to find your necessary information.

For example, to find information on concussions, select the “Food, Nutrition and Exercise” box, and you will then see a box for concussions on the next page. Once that box has been selected, the page pictured below will pull up.

 

          

    On this page, basic information such as definitions and topic overviews can be found. The “Concussions in Pro Sports: Overview” article already looks promising, but it does not say peer reviewed. Using peer reviewed articles is important for maintaining academic integrity in your sources. Select “Peer Reviewed” from underneath the search bar and then click the search icon again. Now, you will find the peer reviewed journal articles that will be best suited as sources for an academic research paper. You can navigate between the types of sources you want by selecting from the options circled in the image below.

Now that you have found good sources that you wish to use for your paper, there is another important step that Consumer Health Complete can help you with, and that is citations.

            Once you have clicked on an article that you wish to use, you can select the quotation marks on the top right. (This is also where you can download your article, share it, save it, and more.) This tool will automatically generate the proper citation for you, as shown below.

    You also have the option to change your citation style, which depends on what discipline you are writing in. This makes building an annotated bibliography a breeze.

             These are just a few of the many things that Consumer Health can do. How you utilize the database depends on what exactly you need from it, but it is still a very helpful tool, regardless of whether it is being used in the realm of academia or in a more household health sense. In conclusion, Consumer Health Complete was created for you, the consumer, and it is a wonderful, free resource to help provide easy access to important health and wellness information. If you have any questions about using this database, do not hesitate to reach out to your librarian for assistance.