Age-Appropriate Libby and hoopla filters

Libby

There is no set “Kids Mode” for Libby, but they do offer some search filters which will remove any age inappropriate content. You can do this by altering the audience setting.

Follow these instructions online at www.help.overdrive.com:

  1. Log in to your account with your library card and pin number. (Typically pin is last four digits of your card number, unless you’ve changed it.)
  2. Select Dropdown menu under My Account.
  3. Select Settings.
  4. Under Content preferences: Select Audiences.
  5. There are options for the following: All Audiences, Juvenile, Young Adult, General Adult and Mature Adult. You can select the age appropriate selection by clicking on the category. From that point on you will only see titles within that content range. If you want to edit it in the future, you’d just follow the same instructions and select a different age range.

 

Note: These choices are also reflected on your devices.If you’d just like to change the audience without limiting material availability, you would just select the collection under Popular Collections on your device and it will refine the titles within that genre or audience. There are options for Juvenile Literature, Juvenile Nonfiction, Beginning Reader, Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult Literature, Young Adult Nonfiction, Picture book Nonfiction, Children. (There are other options for filtering searches).Once you’ve selected the Collection such as Fiction:

To set sort and filter preferences for all searches and title lists:

  1. Tap the plus sign to update preferences like availability, language, and audience. Then, tap Apply Preferences.
  2. To sort and filter a specific search or title list, you can:
  3. Tap the format and genre links above your results.
  4. Tap Refine above the first result, then choose Sort by or any of the other refinements.
  5. Tap the plus sign to search within results.

hoopla

hoopla Kids Mode is a multi-format, digital media experience designed especially for kids (up to age 12). All of the content – eBooks, audiobooks, comics and manga, music, movies, TV, and BingePass – has been curated and brought together in this one family-friendly place.

Kids Mode is a feature that should be used with parental guidance. There are different age ranges using this feature and the titles available range from G-General Audiences to PG – Parental Guidance Suggested. Parents or guardians are expected to decide whether a specific title is appropriate for their child.

Kid Mode on iOS (Apple products)

  1. Click the gear icon in the upper right (under “my hoopla” to be taken to the settings menu to active “Kids Mode”
  2. Then click this toggle switch to enable “Kids Mode”
  3. Finally, after you active “Kids Mode”, Click Cancel. Now hoopla has been changed to display only kid appropriate material.

Android

  1. Click on the 3 dots in the upper right
  2. Click on settings to get the “Kids Mode” option
  3. Tap toggle to enter into “Kids Mode”, when it is activated you will see “Kids Mode is On!” Display at the bottom.

Website

  1. Click “Setting” in the upper right, then click “On” for Kids Mode
  2. Need images to facilitate these instructions with hoopla? Click the link to view hoopla’s instructions with images

 

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