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
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Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:02 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
>