Library anxiety: Characteristics of ‘at-risk’ college students

Jiao, Qun G.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Lichtenstein, Art A.

doi:10.1016/s0740-8188(96)90017-1

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“…High levels of library anxiety have been reported in these individuals, yet very little has been written about their library experiences. 18 Special attention must be paid to this unique group of students to ensure that they are able to locate, evaluate, and use the library resources available. One means to this end may be the production of multilingual Web-based library instruc tional materials.…”

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Information Literacy of Physical Science Graduate Students in the Information Age

Brown

1999

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This article reports on findings from a survey exploring the information literacy of physical science graduate students. The study also describes the graduate students' perceptions of the physical and psychological components that enhance or detract from their ability to find, appraise, and use information and how they feel during the various stages of an information search. This snapshot investigation illustrates that physical science graduate students form an information-literate microcosm de spite the lack of formal library instruction. The students offer a small number of reasons why they may be inhibited from locating an informa tion source and report experiencing little anxiety as they search for infor mation. They also describe their ideal information-seeking environment as being within the comfort of their home or the convenience of the library. Further, they place some emphasis, but not total reliance, on the capability to connect to the Internet quickly. Relevance, quality, and speed are the cornerstones of a successful search quest. Recommendations for outreach to graduate students who are not native speakers of En glish are made. Also, suggestions are proposed for library instruction that is specifically designed for, and attracts a greater number of, physi cal science graduate students.ver the past two decades, technology has become an integral part of the fabric of academic life. Physical sci ence faculty and students employ tech nology every day on university cam puses as they e-mail colleagues all over the globe, word process manuscripts, create spreadsheets of data, and search online databases for information to support their teaching and research activities. Parallel with the increasing dependence on technology for daily tasks has been the unimaginable expan sion of information related to the physical sciences. Physical science li brarians and information specialists have taken advantage of the new tech nologies to organize, provide access to, and archive this wealth of information. However, the extent to which gradu ate students in the physical sciences are able to identify, find, appraise, and make effective use of the vast amounts of information available to them to ad dress a specific problem (i.e., their in formation literacy) has not been docu mented.

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Information Literacy of Physical Science Graduate Students in the Information Age

Brown

1999

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“…Wu (2007), however, reports that the overwhelming majority of the students know little about electronic resources and 49.6% of all college students in the study preferred printed periodicals. Researchers have suggested alternative methods to help users (Jiao et al, 1996;Onwuegbuzie, 1997;Jerabek, 2001). Various studies have reported that university libraries have established instruction programs in collaboration with the faculty so as to provide interactive instructions for improving the students' information search capabilities (Table 2).…”

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Development of a Service Framework for Library Users from Customer Relationship Management Perspective

Wang¹

2012

Advances in Customer Relationship Management

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“…She pioneered the term of "library anxiety" and fount at least 75% of undergraduate students experienced this phenomenon. Anxiety is an unpleasant feeling or emotional state with physiological and behavioral concomitants, which comes to the fore in a library setting [19]. Onwuegbuzie [20] aimed at graduate students in library anxiety and found that writing a research proposal is an anxiety-inducing experience for many students.…”

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A Conceptual Framework of Library Reader Service from Customer Relationship Management Perspective

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2008 Second International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking Symposia

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Library anxiety: Characteristics of ‘at-risk’ college students

Cited by 139 publications

References 12 publications

Information Literacy of Physical Science Graduate Students in the Information Age

Information Literacy of Physical Science Graduate Students in the Information Age

Development of a Service Framework for Library Users from Customer Relationship Management Perspective

A Conceptual Framework of Library Reader Service from Customer Relationship Management Perspective

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