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Movies, Music & Magazines​

FEES & LOAN RULES

Movies

DVDs – The Library’s collection includes popular movies, documentaries, instructional films and more.
  Search for DVDs in the Library catalog.


hoopla

  • Borrow up to 5 titles per month
  • Stream or download
  • All titles are instantly available: no waiting, no holds!
  • Movies & TV episodes are available for 72 hours
  • Read, listen or watch digital content using the hoopla app
  • hoopla help

kanopy

  • Stream over 30,000 films
  •  Includes The Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, and PBS
  • Thousands of independent filmmakers
  • All titles are instantly available: no waiting, no holds!
  • Movies & documentaries are available for 3 days
  • Borrow up to 10 titles per month
  • Watch movies using the kanopy app on a compatible device
  • kanopy – getting started
  • kanopy help

Music

  Search for MUSIC in the Library catalog.


hoopla

  • Borrow up to 5 titles per month
  • Stream or download
  • All titles are instantly available: no waiting, no holds!
  • Music albums are available for 7 days
  • Read, listen or watch digital content using the hoopla app
  • hoopla help
  • Hoopla – Getting Started

Go to Kids’ music

Magazines

  Search for MAGAZINES in the library catalog.

PressReader – Full text of current issues of more than 7,000 magazines and newspapers worldwide. To access:

  1. From pressreader.com or the PressReader app, select Sign in.
  2. Choose Libraries & Groups.
  3. Search for and select Batavia Public Libraryfrom the dropdown menu
  4. Click the Sign-in button
  5. Enter your Batavia Public Library card number and PIN and press Sign in.

PressReader Tutorial (PDF)

Barrie H. Thorpe Batavia Illinois Public Library Collection – 

78rpm shellac discs donated from the Batavia Public Library Thorpe Collection to the Archive of Contemporary Music and digitized by George Blood, LP for the Internet Archive.