Noushafarin Ansari

Noushafarin (Noushin) Ansari is an Iranian librarian, educator and manager, born in Simla, India, in 1939. Her parents were diplomats; therefore she was exposed to many languages and cultures in Asia and Europe. In 1958-1960 she studied librarianship in Geneva, a discipline she continued at McGill University and at the University of Toronto. She worked as a librarian at the Delhi Public Library, and Tehran University Central library, and was Library Director at the Faculty of Literature and Humanities at Tehran University. In 1962 she married Mehdi Mohaghegh, a renowned Iranian university professor and scholar. Noushafarin Ansari started teaching at the Faculty of Library and Information Science at Tehran University in 1968 and retired...