Hi Siobhain, I have a discussion of why learn UNIX in this Code4Lib journal article I wrote a few months back:
Unix Commands and Batch Processing for the Reluctant Librarian or Archivist http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9158 Best, Anthony Cocciolo -- Anthony Cocciolo, Ed.D. Associate Professor Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science 144 West 14th Street, Room 604D New York, NY, 10011-7301 +1 212-647-7702 acocc...@pratt.edu http://www.thinkingprojects.org On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:02 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 >
