Australia's first public tool library opens in Brisbane and instead of books and magazines, library members borrow power tools, lawnmowers and whipper snippers.
  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Personally I think these are an awesome idea, but I think the inconvenience of the location is going to make it a hard sell. If every Council library had a good stash of tools that could be borrowed (even for a fee, like the Brisbane Tool Library has) it would be awesome. But needing to travel all the way into the CBD to the State Library is an awkward roadblock. I hope it can be enough of a success where it is to grow out into more locations.

    • lordriffington@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      It’d be especially awkward to rent a mower or something similarly large from SLQ. You’d either have to pay for parking or take it home on the train.

    • AdaAEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      You can do that yourself too, even if you didn’t post the original!

        • AdaAEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          I mean, it’s respectful to ask before posting original content, but this is just a link to the ABC. If it’s useful to your community, share it!

            • AdaAEnglish
              4·
              1 year ago

              The other side of that coin is that if someone likes something I post, I don’t want to have to federate and join multiple communities I’ve never heard of to share it there as well. I’m not the OP, but I’d much rather someone who is already a member do that part for me :)

              • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                I’d much rather someone who is already a member do that part for me

                That’s exactly how I feel, too. I’d rather not post something to a community that I don’t frequent most of the time, because I don’t want to intrude. I don’t garden—I swear I have a magenta thumb—so I don’t know anything about what they would enjoy. So I’m not gonna post stuff in there.

                But I would never object to someone taking something I’ve posted publicly (whether it’s my own OC or me posting a reputable news source or anything in between) and posting it in good faith to another community that they think would like it.

            • Lodion 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneMEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I see it as all communities here on aussie.zone belong to all users. Mods are caretakers. So feel free to post or cross post appropriate content to any community.

        • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I’m with Ada. I crossposted this here from a completely different instance’s community and never thought there was any need to get permission.

          But if you want it, you absolutely have my permission to post this anywhere.