Strategic Stress Management by Medical College Library Professionals of Karnataka: A Study

In this research, we attempted to know how medical college library professionals are managing stress. In our research, we made a case study, personally visited all 47 medical colleges affiliated with RGUHS in Karnataka and collected information through a questionnaire from 97(90% response rate) library professionals. Five major aspects in this study are, to know staffing status, Collective Factors leading to stress, causes for stress, outcomes or problems caused by stress and strategies used to overcome stress among medical college library professionals. In our research we found that qualified library staff is scarce in medical college libraries of Karnataka, organizational Factors are the main causes for stress, technological change is the major stress-producing factor, Lack of work autonomy and Promotions, demotions or transfer are the main outcomes of stress and Medical college library professionals uses all possible strategies for large extent to alleviate stress.