• Purchase only items that 3 or more Duchesne County resident patrons are on hold for. Titles that are only available as expensive metered access titles (we lose access in 2 years and have to buy it again) will be avoided as much as possible due to their poor return of investment.
  • Items that multiple Duchesne County patrons are requesting from the OverDrive Marketplace (through the Deep Search/Notify Me feature) are sent as a purchase request to the USL designee.
  • Patrons may utilize content controls to filter search results on a device. It can be locked with a PIN code, but it is only for that device.
  • Hoopla
    • Continue to provide access to the digital material collection in Midwest Tapes’ Hoopla platform at a limit of 5 patron checkouts per month. Their model is simultaneous circulation. Evaluate costs of Hoopla annually. Licenses are not owned by the library and costs can become unmanageable if use gets too high. We will not purchase their one copy/one user licenses as they are not shared with the state as OverDrive’s are. Their offerings are usually different from what OverDrive has. Only available to Duchesne County resident patrons. Circulation averages about $2.50/checkout.
    • There is a children’s mode, but it is not lockable.
  • Blackstone Unlimited
    • Launched in 2025 and a 3-year contract was signed at $5,500/annually. Service is only available to Duchesne County residents. Costs are based on total physical and digital circulation (roughly $0.40/checkout). Collection is 7,500 adult titles and 1,500 young adult/children titles. Hundreds will be added every 3 months. Costs are cheaper than Hoopla and it is hoped that some demand will be redirected to this collection over the costlier Libby and Hoopla collections.
    • Patrons may checkout as many titles as they would like to their shelf, with no due dates. They can return them to declutter their digital shelf. Only 10 may be downloaded for offline listening at a time so as not to take too much space on a device.
    • Blackstone currently does not have an API connection for Aspen like Libby and Hoopla do so that patrons can see all digital and physical collections in the Aspen patron catalog.
  • Evaluate costs of Hoopla and determine if the checkout limit needs to be reduced to 4/month.
Patron Computers
  • Patron computers will be provided at both branches and connected to patron printer/scanners.
  • Each has drive protection and reservation session management software downloaded.
  • All computers will be filtered by the county’s firewalls according to Utah Code and in compliance with the Child Internet Protection Act.