Use of Bostick's Library Anxiety Scale on undergraduate biological sciences students of Kuwait University

A cross-cultural evaluation of the psychometric properties of information seeking anxiety scale in Pakistani environment

“…Cronbach's Internal Reliability Coefficient Alpha was used to determine the internal consistency of the overall ISAS and its sub-dimensions because it is an accepted and most commonly used measure of internal consistency and reliability (Gliner and Morgan 2000;Erfanmanesh, Abrizah and Karim 2012). Moreover, this measure had successfully been used to estimate the internal consistency and reliability by many researchers (Anwar, Al-Kandari, and Al-Qallaf 2004;Anwar et al 2012;Bowers 2010;Erfanmanesh, Abrizah and Karim 2012).…”

“…This measure had successfully been used to estimate the internal consistency and reliability by many researchers (Anwar, Al-Kandari, and Al-Qallaf 2004;Anwar et al 2012;Bowers 2010;Erfanmanesh, Abrizah and Karim 2012). The value of reliability coefficient (CA) varies between zero (0) and one (1).…”

“…Bostick's LAS, since its development in 1992, has been utilized extensively due to cultural and local reasons to assess library anxiety construct among undergraduate students across different library environments , 2001Jiao, Onwuegbuzie, and Lichtenstein 1996;Onwuegbuzie 1997;Onwuegbuzie andJiao 1997, 2000;Karim and Ansari 2010). It had a few modifications and translations owing to different educational, cultural, geographical grounds (Anwar, Al-Kandari and Al-Qallaf 2004;Swigon 2011;Shoham and Mizrachi 2004;Van Kampen 2004). Anwar, Al-Kandari and Al-Qallaf (2004) stated that original LAS was superannuated and it needs to be adapted to the contemporary information space.…”

“…It had a few modifications and translations owing to different educational, cultural, geographical grounds (Anwar, Al-Kandari and Al-Qallaf 2004;Swigon 2011;Shoham and Mizrachi 2004;Van Kampen 2004). Anwar, Al-Kandari and Al-Qallaf (2004) stated that original LAS was superannuated and it needs to be adapted to the contemporary information space.…”

A Conceptual Framework of Library Reader Service from Customer Relationship Management Perspective

“…Jiao et al [21,22,23] surveyed graduate and doctoral students and the results showed that anxiety affects their learning style and satisfaction. Graduate students need to be instructed separately, on the other hand, undergraduate students need library instruction along with their class program [24,25]. Jerabek et al [26] indicated that library should develop alternative ways of helping library patrons in using resources.…”