{"id":524,"date":"2008-10-09T15:02:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T06:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/09\/radical-trust-at-state-library-of-queensland-building\/"},"modified":"2008-10-09T15:02:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T06:02:42","slug":"radical-trust-at-state-library-of-queensland-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/09\/radical-trust-at-state-library-of-queensland-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Trust at State Library of Queensland building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have this thing I say when people get worried about opening up our sites to our users to help create content:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px\" class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p>If your library is like mine, you allow bottled water the building. There is nothing to stop users from deliberately upending the whole bottle all over a PC and destroying it. But they don&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3129\/2926400974_37ab57fc30.jpg?v=0\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wonder about the &#8220;nothing to stop them&#8221; bit. Maybe the best security is other users of the facility &#8211; engaged and passionate users &#8211; who would quickly tackle the delinquent water pourer. \u00a0There is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vichealth.vic.gov.au\/assets\/contentFiles\/Train_Stations_Community_Wellbeing2.pdf\">lot of literature around new ways that rail stations are being protected<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; create a \u00a0beautiful art space where people come to do other things and take pride in the place created. In these cases security becomes self-regulated.\u00a0This is what seems to be happening at the State\u00a0\u00a0Library of Queensland.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3102\/2926399838_1a786de1e9.jpg?v=0\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Walking past the \u00a0cafe on the ground floor, I noticed that the chairs seemed too big to drag through the door at night. I asked a staff member and she said that they leave them out after the cafe closes. There are always people around 24\/7 using the free wireless. In fact, the backpackers&#8217; tourist buses make stops here so passengers can get off to contact home.\u00a0 There is no evidence of graffiti either &#8211;\u00a0 although the concrete walls, which remind me of what you might see in an isolated abandoned factory, seem to be screaming for user based tagging of a different kind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3040\/2925549825_be50a05311.jpg?v=0\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have this thing I say when people get worried about opening up our sites to our users to help create content: If your library is like mine, you allow bottled water the building. There is nothing to stop users from deliberately upending the whole bottle all over a PC and destroying it. 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