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The St. Catharines Public Library has a continuous growing collection of digital media, including audiobooks, e-books, music, and magazines. Below are the links to the respective collections.

Movies, TV Shows, Music & Audiobooks

Hoopla Digital
Enjoy Movies, TV Shows, Music & Audiobooks for free on your computer or mobile device.
Borrow up to 8 titles each calendar month. Video lends for 48-72 hours, music lends for 7 days, and audiobooks lend for 21 days.
Kanopy
Kanopy offers over 30,000 high-quality films and documentaries from art-house classics to world cinema from producers such as The Great Courses, PBS, the Criterion Channel, and many more, all available to play on your PC, phone, tablet and digital media player.

New: Each month, SCPL cardholders are given 30 tickets to spend on watching their favourite videos. The running time of a title impacts the number of tickets required to watch the video and the amount of time you have to watch the video. Titles may require up to 5 tickets.

For family-friendly movies and TV series, check out Kanopy Kids. Kanopy Kids does not require tickets.
 
Kanopy Kids
Stream a selection of educational and enriching videos on Kanopy Kids with developmentally appropriate, age-based ratings from Common Sense Media, as well as additional parental controls. Kanopy Kids categories include TV Series, Learning Languages, Animated Storybooks, Anime Favourites, Classic Films and Movies for the Whole Family.

eBooks & Audiobooks

cloudLibrary eBooks and Audiobooks
Read or listen to books on your computer, phone or mobile device.
Borrow up to 8 titles at one time and keep them for up to 14 days.

cloudLibrary FAQ

Hoopla Digital
Enjoy Movies, TV Shows, Music & Audiobooks for free on your computer or mobile device.
Borrow up to 8 titles each calendar month. Video lends for 48-72 hours, music lends for 7 days, and audiobooks lend for 21 days.

Digital Magazines

Flipster
Flipster is a next-generation magazine service that allows you to download digital versions of the latest issues of popular magazines to your computer, tablet or mobile device. Available titles include HELLO!, Maclean’s, Newsweek, People, Rolling Stone, US Weekly, Wired and many more!
There is no limit to the number of magazines that can be downloaded. Select weekly titles expire in 2 days, while select monthly titles expire in 7 days. If a magazine has an expiry date, this information will be displayed at the bottom of the magazine cover image in the app. If a date is not displayed, the magazine will not expire. Expired magazines may be downloaded again.

Music Streaming

Hoopla Digital
Enjoy Movies, TV Shows, Music & Audiobooks for free on your computer or mobile device.