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 <[log in to unmask]>
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
>