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crl-16422	Gremmels, Gillian S.	Constance Mellon’s “Library Anxiety”: An Appreciation and a Critique	2015-03-01	8	.pdf	application/pdf	4569	181	40	Project Infor- mation Literacy in 2010’s report Truth Be Told, while not specifically addressing library anxiety, described undergraduates’ feelings of being overwhelmed at the beginning of a research project, hearkening back, once again, to Mellon.11 Lesley Brown discussed reference librarians’ attempts to diminish library anxiety in the context of the major changes in that service by 2011.12 Eamon Tewell has recently complicated library anxiety in interesting ways, based on portrayals of libraries and library staff in two current television sitcoms, bringing in depictions of predatory staff behavior and the library’s rule-orientation, inflexibility, and political power within city government.13 Mellon’s article is still being cited for both the phenomenon and the method. The resonance I felt when I read about library anxiety was powerful: yes, I thought; this is what I’m seeing in my students, who seem over- whelmed by the library, in need of librarians’ help, yet reluctant to approach us.	cache/crl-16422.pdf	txt/crl-16422.txt