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Addressing Library Anxiety ( LA ) in student nurses: a study in an NHS Foundation Trust Hospital library and information service
Author(s) -
Still Madeleine
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
health information and libraries journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.779
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1471-1842
pISSN - 1471-1834
DOI - 10.1111/hir.12124
Subject(s) - anxiety , foundation (evidence) , library science , service (business) , focus group , medical education , psychology , medicine , sociology , political science , computer science , business , marketing , psychiatry , law , anthropology
Library anxiety is a concept which has been recognised in academic library circles since the early 1990s. It can result in students actively avoiding the library for the duration of their studies. Madeleine Still is Trust Librarian at North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and while studying for an MS c, recognised that some student nurses were exhibiting signs of library anxiety. She decided to make it the focus of her MS c dissertation, and this article discusses her research project as well as highlighting the measures she has taken to address the issues she uncovered. Madeleine graduated in July 2013 with an MS c in Information & Library Studies from Robert Gordon University. AM