[issybird]

What’s immoral about a library card, you may well ask. Nothing, obviously.

Except. I’m always rather surprised as how open people are about getting or using library cards to which they’re not entitled as a resident or taxpayer. Sharing a card with a friend, for example, and what I think is most common, continuing to use cards after they’ve moved elsewhere. I suspect some have a friend or family member sign them up with a geographically valid IP combined with a physical address. There have been posts about the high costs of borrows to the lending institution, so this isn’t a victimless issue.

So I wonder what people’s thoughts and practices are and do they do things they in fact think they shouldn’t. The poll is private; it’s multiple choice because I’d like people to indicate what they think is the morality of the issue and how they behave, using what means.

ETA: Just to clarify: In terms of this poll, this is not a question of paid-for cards by an out-of-area user, but of cards where the user isn’t entitled and doesn’t meet the terms of use, but uses a fiddle to get access anyway.