Library anxiety factor in university library usage and its effect on students' library usage: Example of Çankiri Karatekin University

Emotions, which are a part of human life, continue to exist together with humanity. As psychological states such as fear, sadness and excitement are natural, anxiety is also natural and is a part of human life. However, the important point here is that anxiety reaches harmful levels for the person experiencing anxiety in the face of some situations in human life. For this reason, the issue of anxiety has been the subject of research for many years. One of the types of anxiety that negatively affects the person in creating an obstacle to the use of libraries is library anxiety. Researches indicating that library anxiety coexist with the history of libraries have revealed that library anxiety can be experienced due to various factors. Library anxiety due to these factors is an important issue that needs to be emphasized in terms of delaying library use or resulting in avoidance of libraries. The "Library Anxiety Scale" was applied to the participants in the survey study applied to the students of Çankırı Karatekin University, which is the sample of the research. As a result of the data obtained from the questionnaire study applied to 313 graduate students, it was determined that the students did not experience library anxiety in the majority. However, it was concluded that the students who participated in the survey knew very little about the library and did not make enough use of the library.