FAQ's

Brandman's Librarian: Annie Knight is no longer the librarian for Brandman University, as of August 2014 our new librarian is Lugene Rosen. Some of the old assignment pdfs might still list Annie.
You can reach Lugene by phone (714-532-7736), email (lrosen@chapman.edu),
http://www1.chapman.edu/library/centers/​

Comments: Although it lists differently in two places you will be responding to one of your classmates blogs, although I do encourage more comments for class discussion you will only be graded on one.

Your assignment topic: A question was asked about our topic for the assignments. Your topic that you will be working on throughout this semester is your career focus. This was chosen because it was believed that students would not mind working through their career choice and would rather find articles on this topic than something else they may not be interested in or have little to know interest. So for your assignments you will be examining your career or future career as your topic. What degree are you pursing? what field are you in now and what will the outcome be after your degree? These are not questions you have to answer for the assignment, rather they are things just to think about for the work ahead. Articles for anything relating to your career or have interest in is a suitable topic for your class assignments. 

Week 2! Deep Web & Research

For your assignment this weeks we will be examining the deep web. Brandman’s Leatherby libraries databases are one such example of the deep web. Our libraries database queries are user generated, as you create a search for an article or subject. Not strictly online and also password protected and therefore part of what is called the Deep web/ Invisible web/ or Hidden Web. For more on this topic Read the short paragraph from Open Education Database. Remember that the material found here has been digitized and is not an online source. 
REPEAT The journals and articles you find through Leatherby libraries are not online sources, rather print sources that have been turned into digital files to read. Much in the same way most e-books are print first and then turned digital.
Make sure to fully read this weeks’ assignment .pdfs on Blackboard. You will find one article through Leatherby Libraries and one article through Google Advanced. Make sure your create citations for each of the articles you find.

New Blogs! :)

Everyone has done an excellent job getting set up on Blogger and I was happy to see how many of you quickly finished the first two assignments for the week before the deadline.  Throughout the week as I have done, I will continue to update our class blog list and post grades for work as soon as possible. 5 Points for each assignment will be deducted for those that do not send me their blog and blog post before Midnight 11-3-14, allowing an extra day for the first week. I have yet to hear anyone struggling with the assignment. If I do not see questions or responses, I have no way of knowing what problems the class may be encountering.

If you do have questions feel free to email me.

John Macomber
"Mr. Mac"
jmacombe@brandman.edu