[2] Much of her scholarship was in the field of education for librarians and practices of library use, and she also co-authored a series of city ranking guides with her husband, Andrew Garoogian.
Garoogian obtained her Master of Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute in 1973.
She worked as an adjunct reference librarian at Brooklyn College and a visiting instructor at Pratt before being appointed the Assistant Dean of the Library School in 1977.
She discussed the importance of technology skills for librarians, highlighting the divergence between librarianship and information science.
During Garoogian's tenure as dean, enrollment was doubled, and the program was reinstated as a school.