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Generally stress is the changes, which our bodies experience as one, adjust to the continually changing environment. It has both physical and emotional effects on us and can create positive or negative feelings. As a positive influence, stress can help compel us to action, result in a new awareness and an exciting new perspective. As a negative influence, it can result in feelings of distrust, rejection, anger, and depression, which in turn can lead to frustration to work and also several health problems such as headaches, high blood pressure, heart disease etc. The library environment has changed drastically over the past few decades. With the development & application of information technologies, the library environment has shifted from the traditional library to computerized library, then automated library and more recently digital library. With such changes, the structure and nature of library & information science professionals has also changed in a dynamic way. The library & Information Science professionals experience stress as they readjust their lives with the changing library environment, job rotation, job promotion etc, the in adjusting to such changing library job environment, stress will help or hinder us depending on how we react to it. Stress is a psychological condition and body discomfort. Stress is a common phenomenon. Every individual experiences stress at some or other time. Employees experience stress in the process of meeting the targets and working for long hours. When the person experiences a constraint inhibiting the accomplishment of desire and demand for accomplishment, it leads to potential stress. In fact for most of the time individuals are responsible for stress. However, organizations also create stress in the individuals. The stress is caused when a person has needs, desires, wishes and expectations and certain forces prevent the person from doing the desired activities. Stress is originated by the psychological tensions and slowly leads to physical or biological breakdown.