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Oksana Brui biography

Discover more about Oksana Brui, the 2024 recipient of the Enriqueta and John Rylands Outstanding Professional Contribution Award.

Oksana Brui
Oksana Brui

Born 3 August 1971, Voytove village, Zhurivskyi district, Kyiv region, Ukraine.

Oksana Brui is a Ukrainian librarian, public figure, Deputy Director General of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of Ukraine, President of the Ukrainian Library Association, PhD in Social Communications. She is the author of about 20 publications, more than 15 handbooks, and 2 Massive Open Online Courses for librarians. She is one of the authors of the Strategy for the Development of Libraries of Ukraine for 2017-2025.

Education

  • Oksana graduated from secondary school in Voytove village, Zhurivskyi district, Kyiv region.
  • She received her first higher education at the Drahomanov State Pedagogical Institute, where she studied Russian Language and Literature from 1989 to 1993.
  • In 2011, she received a master's degree in MBA for Executives in Public Health from the Public Health School of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Maastricht University.
  • From 2014 to 2018, she studied as a postgraduate student at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.
  • In April 2019, she received a PhD in Social Communications, specializing in Book Science, Library Science, and Bibliography. The dissertation research topic is a Balanced Scorecard in Strategic Library Management.

Career

Her first job was at the Scientific Library of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, where she worked as a librarian of the Foreign Acquisitions Department in 1993-1995, a librarian of the Acquisitions and Cataloguing Department in 1995-1998, the Head of the Cataloguing Department in 1999-2004, and from 2004 to March 2011, she was the Deputy Director for IT.

In parallel to her main work at the Scientific Library, Oksana coordinated two projects: an interlibrary corporate cataloguing project from 2006 to 2011 and the ELibUkr project (Electronic Library of Ukraine: Creating Knowledge Centres in Ukrainian Universities) from 2009 to 2011.

In November 2011, she joined the Scientific and Technical Library of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, where she worked as the project manager until June 2013. From July 2013 to January 2016, she held the position of Deputy Director General for IT at the National Scientific Medical Library of Ukraine.

From January 2016 to February 2024, she was the Director of the Scientific and Technical Library named after H.I. Denysenko Scientific and Technical Library of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Under her leadership, the library implemented a transformation strategy.

She has been the Deputy Director General of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of Ukraine since February 2024.

She worked at the Library of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the National Medical Library of Ukraine as a Deputy Director for IT.  Since 2016, Oksana has been the Director of the Scientific and Technical Library of the National Technical University of Ukraine, "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute."

She has been the Deputy Director General of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of Ukraine since February 2024.

Throughout her work in libraries, Oksana has been implementing innovative approaches and management tools to the work of Ukrainian libraries.

Public activity

She was a member of the Ukrainian Library Association's Presidium from 2015 to 2018 and has been its President since 2018.

In 2023, she headed the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Book Institute.

Oksana is a member of working groups and commissions at the ministries of Ukraine.

Under the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine:

  • Council for the Development of Librarianship (2022-present);
  • Interagency Working Group on Amendments to the Regulatory Acts Governing the Acquisition of Books for Library Collections (2021);
  • Working Group on the Development of the Strategy for the Development of Librarianship in Ukraine until 2025 (2015-2019);
  • Working Group on the Development of the Reading Development Strategy (2020-2021);
  • Working Group on the Creation of the National Electronic Library of Ukraine (2023-present);
  • Working Group on the Development of the Concept of the National Centralised Cataloguing System Project (2023-present), etc.

Under the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine:

  • Commission for determining the prospects for the development of SSTL (2016);
  • Commission on Access to Scientific Databases (2018-present);
  • Working Group on the Development of the National Plan for Open Science (2020-2022).

Over the past ten years, she has initiated and implemented more than 20 projects aimed at developing libraries and librarianship in Ukraine, сonsistently advocating for support for libraries at various levels: before state and local authorities, in communities, and society. 

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Oksana has been actively working with the international community to spread truthful information about the Russian-Ukrainian war. She has also been actively working with the leadership of Ukrainian libraries to address social challenges and intensify cooperation between Ukrainian and foreign libraries.

Her professional interests include strategic management, open science, knowledge management, and IT in libraries.