Anxiety and Confidence in Using a Library by College Freshmen and Seniors

Mech, Terrence; Brooks, Charles I.

doi:10.2466/pr0.1997.81.3.929

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“…In the start survey, the fact that web research (WR) affect exceeded library research (LR) affect among the all-students group corroborates the findings of Mech and Brooks (1997) and is in accord with informal communications between the author and students at the reference desk. Most students, particularly freshmen, have greater familiarity with web resources than academic library resources.…”

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Student affect regarding library-based and web-based research before and after an information literacy course

Bell

2011

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Affective responses toward library-and web-based research were measured in surveys administered before and after an eight-week, one-credit-hour, university course in information literacy. Affect refers to attitudinal and emotional responses as measured via Likert scale questions regarding: like-dislike, difficulty-ease, confidence-anxiety, and interest-boredom. Approximately 90 students participated. Affective responses to web-based research (WR) did not appreciably change and remained more positive than responses to librarybased research (LR). However, affect responses to LR increased positively by 9 percent for all students. The most notable LR affect increases among sub-groups were: (1) 13 percent among males and (2) 28 percent among the 21-24 age group. (Numbers are rounded.)

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Student affect regarding library-based and web-based research before and after an information literacy course

Bell

2011

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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“…29 Other recent studies have focused on disciplinary information-searching patterns, student seating preferences in libraries, the use of print resources, student Web use in research, and library anxiety, among other topics. [30][31][32][33][34] A long-anticipated Council on Library and Information Resources study (known as the Outsell study, reflecting the name of the consulting firm conducting it) focused on student and faculty use of information resources from classrooms, offices, libraries, computer labs, and residential locations. 35 This study found that respondents' information use and perceptions of libraries varied across disciplines, by type of institution, and among students at various levels of study and faculty.…”

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Creating a Better Place: Physical Improvements in Academic Libraries, 1995–2002

Shill

Tonner

2003

CRL

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Many academic institutions have benefited from new, expanded, renovated, or reconfigured facilities since the mid-1990s. Given current concerns about the future of the physical library and the nature of space needs, it is important to know what improvements have been made in recent facility projects and what impact these improvements have had on use of the physical library. Based on findings from a survey of 354 academic libraries, this article describes the types of projects undertaken and the kinds of improvements provided. A companion article describing the impact of these improvements on usage of the physical facility is in preparation.

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“…In other words, library anxiety resembles more a state‐based anxiety than a trait‐based anxiety. Consistent with this assertion, Mech and Brooks (1995, 1997) found no statistically significant differences between students' levels of library anxiety and trait anxiety. As such, Mech and Brooks (1995) concluded that, for undergraduate students, library anxiety is “a separate condition from the trait of general anxiety” (p. 175).…”

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