Library anxiety refers to the feeling that one's research skills are inadequate and that those shortcomings should be hidden; in some students this manifests as an outright fear of libraries and the librarians who work there. The term stems from a 1986 article by Constance Mellon, a professor of library science in North Carolina, titled Library Anxiety: A Grounded Theory and Its Development, published in the journal College and Research Libraries.
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1. Wikipedia: Library anxiety
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Library anxiety refers to the "feeling that one's research skills are inadequate and that those shortcomings should be hidden". In some students this manifests as an outright fear of libraries and the librarians who work there.
2. Library anxiety (Wikipedia)
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The term stems from a 1986 article by Constance Mellon, a professor of library science in the U.S.
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