![]() Pocket Therapy for Anxiety: Quick CBT Skills to Find Calm by Edmund J Bourne & Lorna Garano.Mindfulness and Meditation: Handling Life with a Calm and Focused Mind by Whitney Stewart.Freedom from anxious thoughts & feelings: a two-step mindfulness approach for moving beyond fear & worry by Scott Symington.Attention: Beyond Mindfulness by Gay Watson.Anxiety Happens: 52 Ways to Find Peace of Mind by John P Forsyth & Georg H Eifert.This is a stressful time for students, and the library urges you to take breaks, prioritize sleep, and take advantage of services available to you through the Hunter College Counselling Center.Īlso, check out the various eBooks available to help you practice mindfulness, understand anxiety, and more: That said, perhaps it is no coincidence that Mental Health Awareness Month coincides with final exams. This year, Mental Health America is asking us to “Look Around, Look Within.” The organization suggests that we consider the many internal and external factors that affect our mental health. We would love to hear from you: ĭid you know that May is Mental Health Awareness Month? Observation of Mental Health Awareness Month in May began in 1949, and is supported by Mental Health America, federal and state governments, and many more organizations. Still want to leave us feedback? We are leaving the survey open through the end of this academic year. We plan to follow up to hear more about how significant these issues are for our library visitors in the coming academic year. ![]() Only a small group of survey takers left additional comments, so we want to be cautious about interpreting these results. We might have guessed something similar based on what we hear at our service desks. Your top concerns are noise, outlets, and seating. It just means that most of our survey-takers, for whatever reason, happened to spend most of their time on this quiet floor full of book cases. Note that this does not mean that B1 is overall the most popular floor among all our library users. We know that B1 receives its share of visitors, but we did not know that they were such passionate survey-takers. ![]() This tendency to view the library as a place for study may explain some of the most frequently left comments. We were happy to see that the library stands for studying among this group of survey takers. So we are sharing some of what we heard: Your number 1 reason to visit the library is to study. We asked to hear from you, and you obliged. The survey was not designed to reveal how the entire Hunter College community uses our libraries. The responses came from a self-selecting group who were willing to follow QR codes to our online survey. We saw some of what we expected among the survey responses and we also saw some surprises. We opened the survey on April 17 and received 151 responses as of this blog posting. ![]() Thank you to everyone who took our library feedback survey at the end of the Spring semester. ![]()
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