Mariana Harjevschi is the director of the Public Law Library (http://www.pll.md) from Chisinau, a branch of the Municipal Library "B.P.Hasdeu" (http://www.hasdeu.md) financed by Soros-Moldova Foundation (http://www.soros.md) and COLPI (http://www.osi.hu/colpi). She holds a Master's in Library Science and Information Assistance and a Master's in Journalism from Moldova State University (http://www.usm.md). She is an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Library and Information Assistance (http://www.iatp.md/library_spip) and a trainer at the Training Centre - Librarianship School of Moldova (http://www.sbm.dnt.md/).

She attended the Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute in Budapest (http://www.osi.hu/colpi/indexn4.htm) and "Training the Law Librarian" courses in Budapest, Moscow, and Riga.