DEPARTMENT OF CREATING COUNTRY STUDIES BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES

Head of the Department: Valiyeva  Madina  Alibala
Tel: (994 12) 493 98 96
 E-mail:  [email protected]

 

General Information

 

The department started its activity under the Department of Information-Bibliography in 1940. The Unit of Country Studies was designated within the department in 1963. That unit continues its activity independently as the Department of Country Studies and National Bibliography since 1974. During 2006-2009 the department added materials on Country Studies, selected from periodicals, but now it adds retrospective items on Country Studies to the electronic catalogue in MARC 21 format in VTLS-Virtua system and renders electronic information service.

 

The Department’s structure

• The unit that creates the database of Studies on Azerbaijan;

• Archive unit of bibliographic references

Duties

• As the information-bibliographic body on Country Studies, it renders information-bibliographical service.

Main activities

• In order to upgrade bibliographic research, creates the reference body related with the Country Studies- the catalogue system in Azerbaijani and Russian.

• Service catalog of  “Studies on Azerbaijan”;

• Recommendation card catalog of “Studies on Azerbaijan”;

• General systematic catalog of foreign items in the Azerbaijani language.

• Retrospective items on the Country Studies are added to the digital catalogue;

• Provides state bodies, institutions and organizations, different groups of readers with oral and written  references;

• Creates and preserves  the collection of written references on Country Studies at the department;

• Compiles general or bibliographic materials on Country Studies:

• Scientific bibliographic guidebooks;

• Recommendation guidebooks;

• Informative publications;

• Electronic bibliographic guidebooks.