An Empirical Study of New-techno-stress on Librarians Based on the Organizational Perspective

  • Luo Xiaolan ,
  • Li Ming
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  • Library and Information Center, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203

Received date: 2016-05-10

  Revised date: 2016-06-20

  Online published: 2016-07-05

Abstract

[Purpose/significance] Techno-stress has the negative effect on librarians' work influenced by many aspects, among which organizational factor has the significant influence on its level. The analysis on techno-stress from the organizational perspective is benefit to learn librarians' attitude on the new technology in the new technology environment and improve their job satisfaction and service quality.[Method/process] Data is collected from many libraries with the random questionnaire survey. This paper analyzes how organizational innovation and support perception, technology dependence affect librarians' adoption to new technology and techno-stress level.[Result/conclusion] Technology dependence, organizational innovation and support perception will increase librarians' techno-stress. But the techno-stress not only has the negative effect, but also converts into positive pressure possibly.

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Luo Xiaolan , Li Ming . An Empirical Study of New-techno-stress on Librarians Based on the Organizational Perspective[J]. Library and Information Service, 2016 , 60(13) : 33 -39,46 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2016.13.005

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