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Believe it or not, webjunction.org offers a stellar intro to Unix course which provides emulations for hands-on practice exercises. I'm using it for training people in my department here at Caltech and they like it. Laura On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Edward M. Corrado <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Cindee, > > I would look at your local community colleges to see if they have any > classes if yu haven't already done so. I know not all of them have a good > practical course in UNIX, but many of them do. > > Edward > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Cindee Phillips <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I realize this is a bit off-topic for this list, but I'm hoping someone >> might have some advice or recommendations for me concerning Unix training. >> >> I moved from cataloging to our systems position two years ago. At the time, >> we were on a maintenance contract with our ILS vendor, meaning I only needed >> to do very basic things with the server (my job primarily entailed running >> reports against our data and working with some other locally developed >> Access applications.) >> >> Last summer, we joined a consortium and migrated our catalog to their >> servers, and would like to do something else now with the server we were >> previously using for our ILS, probably along the lines of archiving locally >> produced media on it. >> >> But I obviously need more training. It's a Sun box, running Oracle 9, and >> I've looked at several companies that do short term classroom training >> (i.e., www.learningtree.com ( http://www.learningtree.com/ )), but I've >> also been considering online coursework, either by Sun ( >> http://www.sun.com/training/) or, perhaps O'Reilly >> http://www.oreillyschool.com/. >> >> I learn pretty well on my own (I figured out by myself most of the basic >> Unix stuff in respect to copying and moving files, working with vi, working >> with the crontab, etc.) but would want any course I sign up for to have an >> instructor to ask questions of. >> >> Does anyone have any experience with any of these programs they'd be >> willing to share? >> >> I'm sending this to several lists, so apologies for cross-posting. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Cindee Phillips >> [log in to unmask] >> Library Systems Administrator >> Rolfing Library/Trinity International University >> Deerfield, IL, 60015 / (847)317-4021 >> > -- Laura J. Smart, Metadata Services Manager Caltech Library [log in to unmask]@gmail.com