It's a for profit company that sells its services to libraries. I think suspicion of any company that asks for your password with a third party is warranted. A

It's a for profit company that sells its services to libraries. I think suspicion of any company that asks for your password with a third party is warranted. Asking for credentials like this not only teaches bad security practices, but even if Kanopy is trustworthy today, the company could easily be sold to a less trustworthy owner and all the data from your library account siphoned and sold to data brokers.