Naxchivan State University’s
Scientific Library has been operating since 1968,on April 23.The guidance of the
library on the grounds of the public entrusted to Yavuz Akhundov who worked as
the deputy director for educational affairs at that time. To create the fund of
the newly formed library has been allocated recourses and was provided with
necessary literatures and materials. Beginning the work with the books totally
370 the library enriched in a short time.
The books more than 290 in Azerbaijan and Russian languages
was presented from Baku State University, The Central Scientific Library of
Azerbaijan National Sciences academy, the library named after M.F.Akhundov and
from other libraries.
Consisted of one branch and one reading room in
1971 the library had headed by Novruz Guliev who studied part-time at the
university in the faculty of History and Philology at that time, in 1972 the
library had headed by Bayim Vakilova who worked as a laborant at the department
of “Pedagogy” ,now Bayim Vakilova works as a teacher of the same department,
then several years the library had headed by Shovket Gasimova, Gafar Aliev,
Teyyuba Abdullaeva, Parvin Alieva, Aypara Behbudova and Fariz Akhmedov.
Currently,the director of
the Scientific Library of Naxchivan State University is Xumar Mammedova. In order to organize the exchange of
literature has been established a special fund in the eightieth of the last
century, the library has been exchanged with the scientific institutions and
libraries of the former Soviet Union and o number of foreign countries.
During this period the fund
of library relatively enriched, of which more than 2,000 books have been
acquired through exchange.With free necessary copies of printing product fund
enriched further, in order to improve information on bibliography a number of
measures have been implemented.
In 1985,the fund of library was constituted with 60 thousand
copies of rare and important prose works, the scientific literature printed in
Azerbaijan, Russian and foreign languages.
Since 1987 the library had bought free
necessary copies which printed in the country.The library of Nakhchivan State
University further was improved and developed since 1996.
Thanks to the care of the
President of the Azerbaijan Republic Ilham Aliev and the Chairman of the Supreme
Assembly of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic Vasif Talibov were built new
five-storey building for the library of Nakhchivan State University.
Thus, in May 2004 the
library was transferred to the five-storey building with European standards.
After that, began a new stage in the history of library and progressive techniques were used in
the service to the readers. To give a gift of their books to the library of
well-known persons has already became a tradition.
Thus, the academic Isa
Habibbeyli, corresponding member of ANAS, doctor of physical and mathematical
sciences, the late Zohrab Valiev ,academic Budag Budagov, academic Mammadjafar
Jafarov, doctor of philosophy on pedagogy, associate professor Gultac Alieva and
others gave more books from their special library to the library.
Even the rector of Nakhchivan State University
academic Isa Habibbeyli has donated
5 thousands of books from his special library which consisted of 21000
books to the library.
There are more than 200
thousands books with more than 30 languages are stored at the fund of Scientific
Library of Nakhchivan State University which is the largest scientific library
on fields of science in the Autonomous Republic.
Scientific Library of Nakhchivan State
University consisting of 11 members of Scientific Council.Benefiting from the
international library experience and world science Nakhchivan State University
makes high level service to readers.
Specialization each of the stock and reading
halls to the concrete fields of science, placing each hall at the separate
floors is the result of integration of the Europe library system.
Now at the library 11
backgrounds and 11 reading halls which specialized in different fields of
science show a high level of service.