Siobhan, I teach a course on digital curation tools and applications for the University of North Texas, and one of the motivational pieces I use is the Digital Curation Centre's chapter on "Open Source and Digital Curation" by Andrew McHugh in the Digital Curation Manual (2005): http://www.dcc.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/resource/curation-manual/chapters/open-source.pdf .
Most of my students won't go on to be coders -- in fact, I suspect that most of them will interact with systems primarily through GUIs -- but I try to give them enough of an introduction to *nix and specifically bash that they aren't afraid to use it (well, everyone should be a *little* afraid). Danielle Cunniff Plumer Danielle On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Siobhain Rivera <siori...@indiana.edu> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm part of the ASIS&T Student Chapter and Indiana University, and we're > putting together a series of workshops on Unix. We've noticed that a lot of > people don't seem to have a good idea of why they should learn Unix, > particularly the reference/non technology types. We're going to do some > more research to make a fact sheet about the uses of Unix, but I thought > I'd pose the question to the list - what do you think are reasons > librarians need to know Unix, even if they aren't in particularly tech > heavy jobs? > > I'd appreciate any input. Have a great week! > > Siobhain Rivera > Indiana University Bloomington > Library Science, Digital Libraries Specialization > ASIS&T-SC, Webmaster >
