Stress Management of Library Professionals Concerning Academic Institutions in Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India

The researcher made an initiative to analyse the stress management of library professionals of academic institutions. Tirunelveli district is the study area, and Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and its affiliated colleges are the sample units for the research. The researcher constructed a strong questionnaire and personally distributed it to seventy library professionals of the sample unit selected for the study and received sixty fully completed responses from the respondents. Besides, the research was executed to examine the stress factors influencing the behaviour of academic library professionals in the Tirunelveli District and the essential coping strategies they adopted to manage stress. The researcher found that one of the important reasons for the stress is working day and working hours of the academic library are different. Even on holidays, the professionals come to the library.