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 <[log in to unmask]>
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 <[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
>>
>
>