What is Library Anxiety?

Library anxiety is a combination of emotions experienced by many college students (especially first-year students). It is characterized by:

being overwhelmed by the size of the library not knowing where to find things; how the library is organized lack of confidence about how to begin working on assignments feelings of inadequacy (“I’m the only one who doesn’t know.”) hesitancy to ask for help (“I know this is a dumb question . . .”)

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