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OCPL@Home for Adults
Our OCPL@Home offerings are broken up into color-coded sections:
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WV Deli: Read or listen to books on your tablet or phone!
Check out and download e-books, audiobooks, music, and more to your Kindle, Nook, iPad, Android tablet, laptop or desktop computer from our on-line offerings through WV Deli. From Louise Penny and Malcolm Gladwell, WVDeli has the most popular fiction and non-fiction titles. All it takes is your OCPL library card and 4-digit PIN.
Download checked-out materials to your smartphones with the Libby app from Overdrive (for iPhones: App Store | for Android phones: Google Play).
➤ Start accessing our digital collections at WV Deli!
➤ Download Overdrive's Libby app
➤ View our Getting Started with WVDeli page
Hoopla: No Waitlists!
Instantly borrow e-Books, audiobooks, and more through Hoopla Digital - no waitlists ever! OCPL patrons are allowed 10 Hoopla checkouts per month.
NOTE: The first time you use Hoopla, you will need to create an account. You can do so by selecting the "Get Started" button on the homepage or through the Hoopla app (for iPhones: App Store | for Android phones: Google Play). Registration to Hoopla requires an email address and your OCPL library card.
➤ Start borrowing digital materials through Hoopla!
➤ View our Getting Started with Hoopla page
Kanopy: Streaming video and films
Kanopy is a video streaming service that provides instant access to thousands of critically acclaimed movies, documentaries and kid favorites. We partner with studios like A24, The Criterion Collection, PBS and more to bring your library access to thoughtful entertainment.
➤ Access our streaming video collections on Kanopy now!
How can I watch Kanopy?
You can stream Kanopy on any of your favorite devices! Kanopy is accessible via mobile and tablet apps for iPhone and Android. You can also access Kanopy on your Desktop, and SmartTV apps like Roku, Apple TV, and Fire Stick.
How to create an account?
• To get started, visit kanopy.com and select the “Add Library Card” button on the lower left
• Enter your library card credentials
• Create an account using your preferred email
• Begin streaming!
e-Magazines: Download magazines to straight to your device
Digital Magazines on WVDeli allows you to download full-color, digital editions for instant desktop reading, mobile streaming, and mobile-app download. Select both new and back issues, adding them to your personal reading libraries with no holds, no checkout periods, and no limits to the number of magazines checked out. With over 1000 titles, there's a magazine for everyone!
➤ Start downloading magazines through WVDeli/Libby!
➤ View our Getting Started with WVDeli page
NOTE: WVDeli audiobooks, ebooks, and streaming video are available on your smartphones through the Libby app (for iPhones: App Store | for Android phones: Google Play).
INDIEFLIX: Streaming Films and Television
IndieFlix is a movie service that offers access to pop culture favorites, box office hits, award-winning feature films, documentaries, and shorts. With IndieFlix, patrons can instantly view thousands of titles from around the world, including the best from classic TV, horror, comedy, film festival darlings, and more with public performance rights.
- Movies for everyone—dramas, comedies, documentaries, classic film and television, shorts, thrillers, and much more!
- New content added weekly, including newly added PBS exclusive content!
- Easy access and no downloading—stream on any computer, tablet, or smartphone.
Instantly view thousands of titles from around the world, including pop culture favorites, box office hits, award-winning feature films, documentaries, and shorts.
IndieFlix is now available through WVDeli. Log in with your Ohio County Public Library card number and PIN to start learning! When you access IndieFlix through WVDeli, you will have access to all of the classes available for one week. Each weekly access pass counts as one checkout of your ten allotted checkouts through WVDeli.
➤ Get a one-week pass to IndieFlix through WVDeli
➤ View our Getting Started with WVDeli page
The Great Courses: University-Level Classes online
With hundreds of videos on subjects ranging from photography to physics, astronomy to art, history to health, and more, The Great Courses Library Collection has courses on how to do it, how to learn it, or how it happened, taught by the top 1% of university professors and experts from the Ivy League and other renowned schools and institutions.
The Great Courses classes are now available through WVDeli. Log in with your Ohio County Public Library card number and PIN to start learning! When you access The Great Courses through WVDeli, you will have access to all of the classes available for one week. Each weekly access pass counts as one checkout of your ten allotted checkouts through WVDeli.
➤ Get a one-week pass to The Great Courses classes through WVDeli
➤ View our Getting Started with WVDeli page
Some of The Great Courses classes are now also available through Hoopla. Audio-only courses count as one check out on Hoopla. However, each episode of a video course counts as one checkout. OCPL patrons are allowed 10 Hoopla checkouts per month.
➤ View The Great Courses classes available through Hoopla (audio only)
➤ View The Great Courses classes available through Hoopla (video only)
ArtistWorks: Free Online Music Instruction
ArtistWorks for Libraries provides patrons with world-class instruction through self-paced video lessons from Grammy Award-winning music and artistic professionals. ArtistWorks for Libraries offers users everything they need for musical and artistic instruction, from introduction to advanced performance. Students now have access to this kind of instruction, regardless of reductions/eliminations of school music programs and without the high cost of private instruction.
- Beginner to advanced music instruction for the most popular string and band instruments
- Professional musicians provide instruction
- Art and voice classes also included
ArtistWorks for Libraries is now available through WVDeli. Log in with your Ohio County Public Library card number and PIN to start learning! When you access ArtistWorks through WVDeli, you will have access to all of the classes available for one month. Each monthly access pass counts as one checkout of your ten allotted checkouts through WVDeli.
➤ Get a one-month pass to ArtistWorks through WVDeli
➤ View our Getting Started with WVDeli page
➤ Visit our Digital Collections page for a comprehensive list of all of the online offerings available with your OCPL library card.
➤ For book suggestions, reader advisory lists, online book clubs, and new book alerts, visit our e-books page.
No library card needed:
PBS.org: "Be more."
PBS empowers individuals to achieve their potential and strengthen the social, democratic, and cultural health of the U.S. Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS shows, explore music and the arts, find in-depth news analysis, and more, all at pbs.org.
➤ PBS Video
➤ PBS Food
➤ PBS Arts
➤ PBS Digital Studios (web-exclusive content)
Merck Manuals: no card needed
The Merck Manuals are one of the world’s most widely used medical information resources. The Merck Manuals are a comprehensive medical information source covering thousands of topics in all fields of medicine. They are offered as a free public service to health care professionals (medical and veterinary) and the general public. Find information on medical topics, symptoms, drugs, procedures, news, and more, written in everyday language.
