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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." The term stems from a 1986 article by Constance Mellon, a professor of library science in the United States state of North Carolina, titled "Library anxiety: A grounded theory and its development" in the College & Research Libraries journal.
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