Some Thoughts after Translating Library Anxiety:Theory, Research, and Applications

  • Wang Xirong
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  • Library of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093

Received date: 2014-04-11

  Revised date: 2014-04-20

  Online published: 2014-05-05

Abstract

This article introduces the sketch of Library Anxiety: Theory, Research, and Applications; analyses the major value of the book: serving as mini research methodology textbook for library and information science, and its chief characteristics: content across disciplines, unity of science and open, both theory and practice; and presents that the publication of the book's Chinese edition can make the sinicization of library anxiety research more extensive, more thorough and more scientific.

Cite this article

Wang Xirong . Some Thoughts after Translating Library Anxiety:Theory, Research, and Applications[J]. Library and Information Service, 2014 , 58(09) : 143 -147 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2014.09.020

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