I was actually going to say, i can understand a LaTeX course maybe for librarians :P But i do think it should be a separate course, and you need to be able to

I was actually going to say, i can understand a LaTeX course maybe for librarians :P But i do think it should be a separate course, and you need to be able to explain to them why this is a great thing, and in addition to whatever they're doing at the moment. Plus, it needs to be great enough to overcome any network/lock in effects of "but everyone else does it this way"...(and good luck with that...because that's often the reason we do sub-optimal things in programming culture). You've got to do that and replace what they're doing right now, or helps them solve a problem in and of itself that was previously unsolvable. Its not that I'm against teaching them such things, its just that it has to be in an environment of suitable context, and at a level expected of not only a beginner, but of a beginner who has never done any programming. And far be it from me to say so, but maybe...just maybe...there's a reason librarians aren't programmers and are using the tools they have available to them. Maybe its the programmers who are in the wrong. I was shocked when i got into the workforce and discovered that everyone was doing all sorts of IT/admin stuff manually, and thought "if only everyone could program, think of all the efficiency gains!". Now, I'm realizing its a bit more complicated than that...