A few other readings I use on *nix: - Powers, E. (2012). Why I learned to love the command line. Hack Library School: By, For, and About Library School Students. http://hacklibschool.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/why-i-learned-to-love-the-command-line/
- Stephenson, Neal. (1999). In the beginning was the command line. http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html - Raymond, E. S. (1999). The cathedral and the bazaar. Sebastapol, CA: : O’Reilly & Associates. http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ - Cocciolo, A. (2013). Unix commands and batch processing for the reluctant librarian or archivist. Code4Lib Journal 23. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9158 - Phillips, M. 2011. Metadata Analysis at the Command-line. Code4Lib Journal 19. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7818 - Coyle, K. (2007). Learning to love Linux. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 34(1), 72-73. The Cocciolo article is good, but I wish the title were different. Danielle Cunniff Plumer On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:17 AM, danielle plumer <dcplu...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >
