Notice of RetractionThe development of librarian emotional intelligence assessment tool

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Notice of Retraction

After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.

While studies investigating emotional intelligence have been extensively reported in the literature, very few have focused on librarians. Hence, a study was carried out using qualitative approach to identify the dimension of emotional intelligence of Malaysian Public Librarians. Based on the findings of the qualitative study, an instrument measuring librarian emotional intelligence was developed and empirically tested using survey method involving 180 librarians. Accordingly, Librarian Emotional Intelligence Assessment Tool (LEIAT) was developed. LEIAT can be used by Malaysian public libraries to continuously assess the level of emotional intelligence among their librarians. Based on the outcome of the assessment, training needs can be identified. In addition, It can also be used as a tool during entry interview for the post of librarians. LEIAT can be commercialized as a software product. The potential clients of this product would be libraries and corporate resources centers.