Social engineering. Phishing for credentials that aren't yours. Promising that you can't misuse their priviledges (which isn't true), and won't (which can't be assured, despite promises).
I'm not phishing for anything considering the person would willingly give them to me. There is no deception here.
What privledges can I misuse? The worst I can do is put a book on hold and maybe pay their fine for them. Oh boy. And since I will only be using it for digital downloads, I won't even be touching that area anyway.
I seem to recall that when I was still in college, libraries I didnt belong to, they would allow inter-library loans and digital access from a library branch. For example, I could go to my campus library and access libraries across the countries digital downloads via my home library because they had some sort of agreement. And stuff I couldn't digitally access - the libraries were willing to send to my library. Have you tried speaking with your local librarian?
I'm willing to bet your local librarian could contact a CPL librarian and hammer something out.
Thanks for the suggestion. I know about interlibrary loans, but didn't know it could extend to digital collections as well. I'll ask my local library.
I have a feeling, though, that to access the actual ebook digital collection of each library, I have to be a member of that library (since you have to log in and the books are checked under your account).
I went to UW in Seattle. If I was logged in with my UW account and going through their database, then found something at another library -
It would tell me 'owned by x library' and digitally connected me and authorize me with my UW account because they had a 'partnership' of sorts. Most academic institutions have reciprocal agreements with public, private, and other academic universities/libraries.
Have you checked to see if other libraries in your county or state have the same ebooks in their collections? Your profile says FL but your local libraries are more likely to have agreements with other FL libraries versus OH.
I see what you're saying. Unfortunately, the ebook collection at my library is pretty dismal, but at least it's something, right? Other Florida libraries have better selections, but nothing as good as Cleveland.
Have you played around with downloading digital content like Adobe PDF's and such (and maybe even putting it on your ebook reader?)
Hi, this is the moderator. I'm not going to delete this post for now, particularly since the discussion in the comments is somewhat useful, but this does seem like a request that's in a gray area (at best) of permissible behavior and that could carry some risks for a person loaning out their card, so I'd suggest that people proceed with caution.
Also, I'd point out that this is really a community for people who either live in Cleveland or have some connection to it, not just those who would like to take advantage of some service Cleveland offers at a distance. It's cool that Cleveland has such a great library as to draw attention, but libraries are generally financially supported and meant for the use of people in the local area, and if the Cleveland library chooses not to make their collection (including digital collection) available more widely and instead reserve it for those people who can get a card, I'm sure they have a good reason for doing so.
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What privledges can I misuse? The worst I can do is put a book on hold and maybe pay their fine for them. Oh boy. And since I will only be using it for digital downloads, I won't even be touching that area anyway.
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I am not and have never been a Cleveland (or Cuyahoga County) resident, and I had no trouble getting a Cleveland library card.
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Where exactly do you live?
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I'm willing to bet your local librarian could contact a CPL librarian and hammer something out.
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I have a feeling, though, that to access the actual ebook digital collection of each library, I have to be a member of that library (since you have to log in and the books are checked under your account).
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It would tell me 'owned by x library' and digitally connected me and authorize me with my UW account because they had a 'partnership' of sorts. Most academic institutions have reciprocal agreements with public, private, and other academic universities/libraries.
Have you checked to see if other libraries in your county or state have the same ebooks in their collections? Your profile says FL but your local libraries are more likely to have agreements with other FL libraries versus OH.
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Have you played around with downloading digital content like Adobe PDF's and such (and maybe even putting it on your ebook reader?)
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Also, I'd point out that this is really a community for people who either live in Cleveland or have some connection to it, not just those who would like to take advantage of some service Cleveland offers at a distance. It's cool that Cleveland has such a great library as to draw attention, but libraries are generally financially supported and meant for the use of people in the local area, and if the Cleveland library chooses not to make their collection (including digital collection) available more widely and instead reserve it for those people who can get a card, I'm sure they have a good reason for doing so.
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