Education
1996:
School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MSLS
1993:
Business School, Nottingham Trent University, Postgraduate Certificate in Management
1977-1982:
Azerbaijan State Institute of Foreign Languages, Diploma of a Teacher of English and German LanguagesWork Experience
1996-1998
Walter Royal Davis Academic Affairs Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Reference Department
Reference Librarian
Provide reference services and bibliographic instruction to the patrons
1996-1998
Carolina Population Center Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Acquisitions Assistant
Involved in collection development.
1993-1996
USIS Information Resource Center
American Embassy, Baku Azerbaijan
Information Specialist
Performed a full range of professional
and technical services including acquisition, cataloging, classification and circulation, and patron services such as reference and outreach
1982-1993
Azerbaijan State Scientific Medical Library
Cataloger, Reference Librarian,
Bibliographer-translator
Cataloged different kinds of
publications, provided reference and translation services
Professional Training
1995
Reference Sources, Traditional and Electronic
USIA Regional Program Office Vienna, Austria
1994
American Democratic Process
USIA, Washington, DC
1994
Data Trek/Bibliofile Library Automation Workshop
USIA Regional Program Office Vienna, Austria
Grants Received
Recipient of 1996-1998 Freedom Support Act Graduate Fellowship Program in Library Science sponsored by USIA
/Administered by IREX
Danida Grant for developing countries from Danish government to attend IFLA Conference in Copenhagen, August-September 1997
Publications
Nazarova, Muzhgan (1998) Libraries in Azerbaijan:
Past, Present and Future in B.Ford, K. de la Pena McCook (Ed.), Libraries: Local Touch-Global Reach. Chicago, IL: ALA, 1998.
Nazarova, Muzhgan (1997) School librarianship in Azerbaijan in Proceedings of the
Joint Conference of International Association of School Librarianship, Vancouver, Canada, July 6-11, 1997, pp.14-16
Technical Skills
Experienced with IBM HTML, UNIX programming command basics, Telnet and FTP
using UNIX, Word,Wordperfect, Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, Internet Applications, Power Point.
Well-versed in standard cataloging tools including AACR2, LCSH.
Experienced with electronic databases including OCLC, DIALOG, LEXIS-NEXIS etc.
Languages
Proficient in English, Russian and Azerbaijani. Elementary knowledge of German and Turkish. Understanding of Slavic
languages (Polish, Check, Bulgarian)
Professional Affiliation
American Library Association, 1996-1998
Special Libraries Association, 1997-1998
Student Chapter of SLA - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996-1998
Vice-president of AZLA – Muzhgan Nazarova, the Director of the IRC (Information Resource Center) of the USIS (United
States Information Service) in Baku.