U.S. law students are a population whose mental health issues do not receive much clinical focus and few empirical studies have focused on this population. Law students are thought to have higher levels of stress, anxiety, depression and other mental health issues that increase in severity, to increased substance use and suicidality, as they…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether law students experienced library anxiety and, if so, which components contributed to that anxiety. The Multidimensional Library Anxiety Scale (MLAS) developed by Dr. Doris Van Kampen was used to assess library anxiety levels of law students. The MLAS is a 53 question Likert scale instrument that…