For faculty > Library Liaison Program > Bughdana Hajjar

Major responsibilities

• Instructor at the Department of Social Sciences, LAU, Beirut campus.
• Head of the Cataloguing Department, Riyad Nassar Library.

Previous positions

• 1983-1984: Indexer, Al-Fihrest Indexing Service, Beirut.
• Summers of 1982 to 1984: Trainee, Saab Medical Library, American University of Beirut, Beirut.

Education

• M.A., Library and Information Science, Loughborough University of Technology, Leicestershire, England (1989).
• B.A., Library and Information Science, Lebanese University, Faculty of Information and Documentation, Beirut (1983).

Presentations and publications

• “Multimedia Integrated Library Systems in the Arab World. Edited & translated into Arabic,” Newsletter of the Lebanese Libraries Association, 2 (1), 1994.
• “Editorial”, Newsletter of the Lebanese Libraries Association, 5 (3), 1998.
• “Documentation of Electronic Sources According to the MLA and APA Documentation Styles”, المجلة العربية للأرشيف والمعلىمات  1999.
• “Classification Systems at Children’s Libraries: The Example of LAU Children’s Library”, Cybrarians (2), 2004. http://www.cybrarians.info/journal/en/no2/child.htm
• “Lebanese Country report”, IFLA cataloguing principles: Steps towards an international cataloguing code, 3. 117–119. ISBN 3598242786.
• “Demystifying the American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibitions”, Librarian Magazine, 1 (4), 2008. http://librarianmagazine.com/VOL1NO4/lebanonlibrarian_bhajjar.htm
• تقييم الفهرس العربي المىحد: دراسة أولية . Cybrarians 2009. http://www.cybrarians.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=359:2009-05-03-11-51-56&catid=47:2009&Itemid=82

Memberships and offices held

• Lebanese Library Association, Member and Board Member returnee, 2010‐Present.
• American Library Association, Member, 2008‐Present.
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Member.