What is Domestic Violence?
-Domestic Violence is a violent confrontation between family or household members involving physical harm, sexual assault, or fear of physical harm.
A.) My topic Domestic Violence is a really hard topic to talk about. Given that I put personal feelings into my research, it gave me a perspective on what the situation dealt with and I also compared my experience as well.
B.) Library of Congress Subject Headings: Family violence
Conjugal abuse
Husband abuse
Wife abuse
Abused women
Abused husbands
C.) Keywords: Victims of Domestic Violence, abuse, spousal abuse, intimate partner violence, battered men/woman
D.) Reference Sources:1.) Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence, Author: Nicky Ali Jackson, Publisher: New York : Routledge, ©2007; Edition/Format: Book/ English, ISBN: 9780415969680 0415969689
2.) Domestic Violence : A Reference Handbook. Located in McHenry Reference, call number HQ809.3.U5 M385 1995
3.) The Social Work Dictionary
Reference HV 12 .B37
Each reference source that I listed up above is connected with my topic because they are books displaying articles on Domestic Violence. You can't give any easier answer than that, which is the truth.
E. Print Books: Domestic violence
by Deborah Lockton, Richard Ward - Law - 1997 - 218 pages
THE EXTENT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTRODUCTION This book is about domestic
violence. The choice of the phrase is deliberate and introduces the problems of
... (Books.google.com)
Surviving Domestic Violence: Voices of Women Who Broke Free (Paperback)
by Elaine Weiss
Elaine Weiss (Author) Amazon.com
How can domestic violence be prevented?
by Lisa Yount;
Book
Language: English
Publisher: Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press, ©2006. Worldcat.org
Well as you can tell from the titles they all pretain to my topic. Surviving Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence, and How can domestic violence be prevented are books that give information to readers like myself a broader view into Domestic Violence and the search wasn't difficult at all.
F.) Periodicals: Domestic violence: a worldwide exploration.
by CM Carretta
Article
Language: English
Publication: Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services, 2008 Mar; 46(3): 26-35
Database: From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
WOMEN BEAT UP MEN, TOO FEMINIST IDEOLOGUES IGNORE RESEARCH THAT SHOWS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS JUST AS OFTEN STARTED BY WOMEN AS BY MEN
REPORTS COLUMNIST CATHY YOUNG. Pittsburgh Post - Gazette. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Jul 26, 2009. p. B.1
Domestic Violence - Corporate America's struggle to confront the issue.
by Betsy Morris
Article
Language: English
Publication: Fortune. 158, no. 10, (2008): 122
Publisher: [New York, NY, etc., Time, etc.]
Database: ArticleFirst
F.)Website Resources: Facts.com, Netlibrary.com
Facts.com and Netlibrary.com are two very important website resources, and they are both valuable for my topic because they give me a wide variety of articles, articles that provie essential information on what I am searching for. I also got these off the lbcc library website because those websites haven't failed me yet where as on google you can search on that, but sometimes they give you fake websites that provide you with false information making you screwed in the end.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Blog number 5, Last and final post
Well seeing as how I just completed blog number 4 I decided to do this one as well. There is nothing much I can do for my great grandmother but to wait and see how she is, so here goes my homework...
Being as how this is the last blog I wanted to get a head start, and I also just wanted to say thank you Dena for your patience with me, and for teaching me everything in that short amount of time while dealing with your new addition who is beautiful by the way. I am sorry for letting you down on assignment number 2, I realized I was just going to give up on that because the nearest library didn't have current Library of Congress books, they were from the year 1999. I doubt that would have worked right? I also never had any time to go to the lbcc library because they were already closed when I would go there for my math class at night. Alright well enough posting b.s. and excuses, what's done is done!
My online experience was okay, actually it was better than my first one, so there is your answer for that question. I feel that I had less student interaction but I expected that because hey this is the net, not a real class room. If I wanted more student interaction I would have taken this class in person but then again I probably would have done worse than what I did. For a class like this I prefer the net, but for another class I prefer face to face, it wasn't difficult to figure things out for myself.
No there are no other things I learned from another online class that I would like to have seen here. Every online class is different, especially if the online class is about math or computer keyboarding. Those subjects have nothing to do with this class so they wouldn't have worked. People who argue that online classes are harder are just plain illiterate, or they are lazy. It's true that it can be harder because you have to teach your self, but honestly in person classes can be harder too. For instance I just finished a 6 wk summer math class, it was hard and being that it was only 6 wks, I had to basically teach myself in there as well. Sure I had a teacher, but I learned better from me haha.. So you see if anything I would say they are equal.
If there was a face-to face workshop for this class I probably wouldn't have attended it because it's hard for me to leave in the daytime. I had that math class that I just mentioned up above every night, and I don't have anybody to watch my daughter in the daytime so you see it wouldn't have worked well with my schedule. If things were different, if I had my own car and I wasn't so stuck at home then sure I would have love to attend a face-to face workshop, only to see you in person and my other peers that were also taking this class with me. It's neat getting to know the other people who are taking the class as well because then we probably could have traded phone numbers with each other if any of us have a question. I'm sure that probably could have helped you out also since you had a new baby, and trust me new babies are alot of work as toddlers are also. :)
Good luck to you Dena and to everyone who took this class and stuck with it like I did. Hope everything works out well for everyone in the future.
P.S. I am still debating as to whether or not I am going to continue to write on this blog site. If you see another post after the class, there is your answer.
Being as how this is the last blog I wanted to get a head start, and I also just wanted to say thank you Dena for your patience with me, and for teaching me everything in that short amount of time while dealing with your new addition who is beautiful by the way. I am sorry for letting you down on assignment number 2, I realized I was just going to give up on that because the nearest library didn't have current Library of Congress books, they were from the year 1999. I doubt that would have worked right? I also never had any time to go to the lbcc library because they were already closed when I would go there for my math class at night. Alright well enough posting b.s. and excuses, what's done is done!
My online experience was okay, actually it was better than my first one, so there is your answer for that question. I feel that I had less student interaction but I expected that because hey this is the net, not a real class room. If I wanted more student interaction I would have taken this class in person but then again I probably would have done worse than what I did. For a class like this I prefer the net, but for another class I prefer face to face, it wasn't difficult to figure things out for myself.
No there are no other things I learned from another online class that I would like to have seen here. Every online class is different, especially if the online class is about math or computer keyboarding. Those subjects have nothing to do with this class so they wouldn't have worked. People who argue that online classes are harder are just plain illiterate, or they are lazy. It's true that it can be harder because you have to teach your self, but honestly in person classes can be harder too. For instance I just finished a 6 wk summer math class, it was hard and being that it was only 6 wks, I had to basically teach myself in there as well. Sure I had a teacher, but I learned better from me haha.. So you see if anything I would say they are equal.
If there was a face-to face workshop for this class I probably wouldn't have attended it because it's hard for me to leave in the daytime. I had that math class that I just mentioned up above every night, and I don't have anybody to watch my daughter in the daytime so you see it wouldn't have worked well with my schedule. If things were different, if I had my own car and I wasn't so stuck at home then sure I would have love to attend a face-to face workshop, only to see you in person and my other peers that were also taking this class with me. It's neat getting to know the other people who are taking the class as well because then we probably could have traded phone numbers with each other if any of us have a question. I'm sure that probably could have helped you out also since you had a new baby, and trust me new babies are alot of work as toddlers are also. :)
Good luck to you Dena and to everyone who took this class and stuck with it like I did. Hope everything works out well for everyone in the future.
P.S. I am still debating as to whether or not I am going to continue to write on this blog site. If you see another post after the class, there is your answer.
Blog 4
Well I know this is 2 days late, but hey I've been dealing with family issues, my great grandmother was admitted into the hospital this weekend and isn't doing so well, she's already gotten 2 strokes, and has alzheimers. Well so anyways here is my blog now...
Information Competency is the ability to effectively recognize and act on information needs, to locate, evaluate, and use appropriate information to make reasoned decisions. (www.library.ohiou.edu/inst/infocomp.html)
Well in answer to Dena's question yes I do think information competency is important, especially after reading the definition lol. I think all students should learn how to locate, evaluate and use appropriate information especially if they have to do a research project or paper. Like I said in my last blog, I will always have something negative to say, but I just can't help that, but in truth this class has taught me a thing or two so I highly recommend it, even if I didn't recommend it for myself. Does that make any sense? I know I'm weird right?? HA...
After completing this one class I wouldn't exactly call myself an information competent student. It's true I learned quite a few things such as accessing websites I never new existed, especially on the lbcc library page such as proquest, I also learned how to tell which websites are fake and which are real. Students who have taken the time out of their days to learn more from other library classes are information competent students, but me nah. As much as I love the library, I don't see myself going very far with this, especially if it means that I have to take another lib class. Don't get me wrong, Dena is a great teacher, I just realized this class isn't for me eventhough I stuck it out. It's better to stick something out than to quit right?
By the way that's not a rhetorical question...
After this course is over, to be honest I have no clue what I should do to improve my competency skills. I can see if I can go to the library more often and use what I have learned so far, but that's about it. I will always use what I learn in the near future from this class and from any other class I take except math because I hate that subject. I do have to admitt this, even though this class was quite boring to me, I'm going to miss it. There I go again for being difficult lol... it's the truth though, and as a matter of fact I have nothing more negative to say. There were only 2 assignments I disliked, but other than that everything was alright. :)
Information Competency is the ability to effectively recognize and act on information needs, to locate, evaluate, and use appropriate information to make reasoned decisions. (www.library.ohiou.edu/inst/infocomp.html)
Well in answer to Dena's question yes I do think information competency is important, especially after reading the definition lol. I think all students should learn how to locate, evaluate and use appropriate information especially if they have to do a research project or paper. Like I said in my last blog, I will always have something negative to say, but I just can't help that, but in truth this class has taught me a thing or two so I highly recommend it, even if I didn't recommend it for myself. Does that make any sense? I know I'm weird right?? HA...
After completing this one class I wouldn't exactly call myself an information competent student. It's true I learned quite a few things such as accessing websites I never new existed, especially on the lbcc library page such as proquest, I also learned how to tell which websites are fake and which are real. Students who have taken the time out of their days to learn more from other library classes are information competent students, but me nah. As much as I love the library, I don't see myself going very far with this, especially if it means that I have to take another lib class. Don't get me wrong, Dena is a great teacher, I just realized this class isn't for me eventhough I stuck it out. It's better to stick something out than to quit right?
By the way that's not a rhetorical question...
After this course is over, to be honest I have no clue what I should do to improve my competency skills. I can see if I can go to the library more often and use what I have learned so far, but that's about it. I will always use what I learn in the near future from this class and from any other class I take except math because I hate that subject. I do have to admitt this, even though this class was quite boring to me, I'm going to miss it. There I go again for being difficult lol... it's the truth though, and as a matter of fact I have nothing more negative to say. There were only 2 assignments I disliked, but other than that everything was alright. :)
Friday, July 17, 2009
Let's see what to title this?? O wait, I know how about Blog Reflection 3. Sounds nice don't ya think??
HAHA enough messing around, now for me to do the assignment. By the way that's what being bored does to you. Alright well moving on, I certainly noticed that my opinion has changed some what about the research process, and eventhough all of the information I have been retaining is a bit over whelming at times, and it may give me a headache from reading it all, haha just kidding, I have to admitt that all in all it was worth the time and effort I put into it and it was helpful. Although, what I really found frusturating and I disliked greatly because my head was hurting after I finished it was this past assignment, assignment number 5. It was annoying and frusturating to me because we had to use all of those different refernce sources on the net, and sometimes a link wouldn't work, and that also took up alot of my time so I am hoping that I do get a decent grade on it. From surving these past few weeks, I've come to the realization that eventhough I may start to like this class, not only because it's coming to an end, but because I do learn alot of new stuff I've never knew existed, I will always complain about something. I know that maybe annoying to most of you, but whatever, to each his own right? This class does teach you a thing or two, but it is alot of time, and you have to be really bored to just sit there and research all of this stuff. Honestly, had I known it was going to be a pain in my rear, I wouldn't have taken it by choice, but I had to since it is a requirement so I had to deal. Now I know why the counselor said not many people actually take a library class. HA...alright well enough talking crap about this course, it really did have it's good points like I mentioned above because it will teach you a thing or too so it's not a complete waste. I can say this though, in the near future for a research paper, I will have different techniques I could use for myself to do my paper, and maybe then I wouldn't do so horribly and only get a C on it. Thanks Dena for all of the knowledge you've past down to me, eventhough half of this post was whinning, your a great teacher! :)
P.S. I'm kissing major ass if you haven't realized..lol..
P.S. I'm kissing major ass if you haven't realized..lol..
Monday, June 29, 2009
Blog Reflection numero dos
Let's see where to begin...going through everything that we were supposed to have completed over the past few weeks, I realized that I've learned alot. From giving our reflections on the library, to learning how to use the libary catalogs on topics we randomly chose, to reading and writing our thoughts about e-books on discussion forum 5, to write about our topics for our research project, to writing blog reflection 1 on what we thought we learned so far and if we thought we are learning things that might be useful to our continuing education in college, to learning how to navigate the library website and using different search engines, and finally doing assignment 3 which was a little pain in the rear, but manageable. Of course that doesn't mean the end to the endless torture of homework, but none the less it has to be done.
I know I sound a little harsh about assignment 3, and about the other assignments I've yet to complete but oh well, this is my blog and that's how I feel. With that said, I'm going to continue, anyways... going to the library used to be fun for me when I was younger, now, not so much as fun but a necessity for me to get a away from all of this hassle at my so called "home" so I can do my homework in peace. However I can't always do that, due to my other half and responsibility so when I can get a away and go to the library which is rare, I try to enjoy it a little. Noticing that it has changed alot since I've been a kid. Although we do have countless and on-going access to 411 on the net, the library still can be useful on checking out books. Also if you don't have access to the net at your house, the library does provide computers with the net on them, the only thing is, there is a time limit. But seriously, who needs to check out books anymore when you have e-books, and kindles and also book stores?? E-books are useful but they don't have every books in this world, and also I for one am not ashamed to say that I could still use a library because I am broke and I can't afford to buy a new book all of the time.
The internet has a great impact on my life, not only does it allow me to do research, it also let's me keep in touch on specific websites, with people I have lost contact with in high school and from family members who live in other states. Certain websites like myspace, facebook are a keeper, although it is a bit scary to post information that you know other people can get. All in all I say the internet is a big help, and it also can be entertaining since it has music and children's websites for my daughter. I love Nickelodeon and Disney!! :)
I know I sound a little harsh about assignment 3, and about the other assignments I've yet to complete but oh well, this is my blog and that's how I feel. With that said, I'm going to continue, anyways... going to the library used to be fun for me when I was younger, now, not so much as fun but a necessity for me to get a away from all of this hassle at my so called "home" so I can do my homework in peace. However I can't always do that, due to my other half and responsibility so when I can get a away and go to the library which is rare, I try to enjoy it a little. Noticing that it has changed alot since I've been a kid. Although we do have countless and on-going access to 411 on the net, the library still can be useful on checking out books. Also if you don't have access to the net at your house, the library does provide computers with the net on them, the only thing is, there is a time limit. But seriously, who needs to check out books anymore when you have e-books, and kindles and also book stores?? E-books are useful but they don't have every books in this world, and also I for one am not ashamed to say that I could still use a library because I am broke and I can't afford to buy a new book all of the time.
The internet has a great impact on my life, not only does it allow me to do research, it also let's me keep in touch on specific websites, with people I have lost contact with in high school and from family members who live in other states. Certain websites like myspace, facebook are a keeper, although it is a bit scary to post information that you know other people can get. All in all I say the internet is a big help, and it also can be entertaining since it has music and children's websites for my daughter. I love Nickelodeon and Disney!! :)
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Project 1: Library Visit
The library that I most recently visited was of course the closest one to my parents house. The Lakewood Library,currently called Angelo M. Iacoboni Library, which was reopened on February 12,2001 after several months of renovation is located on 4990 Clark avenue, Lakewood California. The telephone number is 562-866-1777, and the website address is http://www.colapublib.org/libs/iacoboni/.
I don't exactly know what the seating capacities are for this library and the services are okay there. In my opinion, the librarians and workers are people who don't know what they are doing, I say this because of my last visit was kind of horrible, but who knows what other people think. There are approximately 253,404 books from different selections such as Science fiction, Fiction, Adult Romance, Children's books, Young adults, books on different languages like Arabic and Chinese, DVDs, CDs, books on CDs, videos and magazines. The internet access there is great and can only be used with a valid library card, but unfortuanently you do have to wait, sometimes for a period of up to an hour and a half. They do however have Express computers which you can use with a valid library card and can go online for 15 minutes but sometimes people don't follow that rule and tend to hog the the computer up.
All those materials that I mentioned up above are usually what the public can check-out. The only books they don't let people check out however are the Library of Congress Subject Headings books. They are usually pretty good about letting you keep the materials you checked out for a good 3 weeks or so also. Three services that are available at this library are the computers with internet access, the computers with the catalogs on them which don't offer internet access, and of course the information desk which contain two people who sit behind to answer your questions. They also provide services for the children of Lakewood which allows the children to do story telling and they can also use the computers from 3:00 to 5:00 P.M.
I used to love going to this library, especially when I was in Elementary school and didn't have anything else better to do in the summers. How I see it now and how I remembered it then is different, especially how the library cards looked. Our old library card were green with gold writing on it that said lakewood library. Now the library cards look like the picture up above. How boring! Also the services upgraded indefinently and I say this because they never had express computers and the computers then were old and these computers of course are new with easy to search catalogs. It's still one floor, but that's okay I do prefer that over two story libraries. I hope those of you who haven't visited this library, visit it at least once in your lifetime, and I really do hope that after reading this blog it doesn't scare you away from visting this historic landmark. :)
Blog Reflection 1
I feel that I am learning some valuable knowledge that is useful towards my continuing education in college because I've learned how to use some websites that make it easier for me to do my research. I also never really browsed the lbcc online voyage catalog either up until I participated on Discussion forum 4. This is not my first online class, the other one I took was a computer, typing and keyboarding which I had to withdraw from because it required alot of my time and if I ever made a mistake I always had to re-due the assignments.
Sadly yes, there is something I disliked about the class and that was doing assignment 2. It's alot harder for me to find time to do that extensive research in those books, time which is limited for me, which is why I still haven't gotten the chance to complete it I'm afraid. The only time I felt like saying a ha was when I browsed through all of those online catalogs from the different schools, and found the information about my topic for Discussion 4.
I am hoping that as time passes I will learn to love this class because of the fact that I was so intrigued on what it felt like to be a librarian when I was younger. Reading, researching and studying is how I am getting through college, and I hope that one day I will be able to pass this knowledge that I am receiving on to my daughter, when the time comes.
Sadly yes, there is something I disliked about the class and that was doing assignment 2. It's alot harder for me to find time to do that extensive research in those books, time which is limited for me, which is why I still haven't gotten the chance to complete it I'm afraid. The only time I felt like saying a ha was when I browsed through all of those online catalogs from the different schools, and found the information about my topic for Discussion 4.
I am hoping that as time passes I will learn to love this class because of the fact that I was so intrigued on what it felt like to be a librarian when I was younger. Reading, researching and studying is how I am getting through college, and I hope that one day I will be able to pass this knowledge that I am receiving on to my daughter, when the time comes.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Come inside my head...
Ha so originally my first post was short and a tester, there fore it was boring!! Anyway I am updating it because I can...
Well I already introduced myself in the introduction on my profile, so no need to go into that one again. I've never had a blog before for a class, I only like to do random blogging on my myspace, which I am addicted too. I am looking forward to seeing what this class would do for me, since this is my first lib class.
Thanks for reading this, I am hoping that my other blogs will be more creative and no I am not a comp. geek, I just have alot of time on my hands. :)
Well I already introduced myself in the introduction on my profile, so no need to go into that one again. I've never had a blog before for a class, I only like to do random blogging on my myspace, which I am addicted too. I am looking forward to seeing what this class would do for me, since this is my first lib class.
Thanks for reading this, I am hoping that my other blogs will be more creative and no I am not a comp. geek, I just have alot of time on my hands. :)
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