Luda Dolinsky leads the FIU Medical Library’s strategic initiatives and oversees daily operations, including administration, planning, and staff management. A founding faculty member, she has been instrumental in shaping the medical library.
Dolinsky’s diverse career spans leadership roles at prestigious academic and hospital libraries, including an internship at Weill Cornell Medical Library and positions at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Library. Her extensive professional service includes serving as president, treasurer, and chair of various library organizations and committees.
Areas of Interest
- Academic Library Leadership and Management
- Library Instruction Impacts on Student Learning
- New Library Buildings
- Cost Analysis
Research Interests
- Healthcare information management
- Digital library practices
- EBM
- AI use in healthcare
See research publications and more on FIU Discovery.
Honors & Awards
- Outstanding Leadership Award from Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Manhattan, and the Bronx Health Sciences Librarians
Committees & Professional Organizations
- Association of Academic Health Sciences Library (AAHSL/AAMS) Medical Library Association (MLA)
- Southern Chapter of Medical Library Association (SCMLA)
- Consortium of Southern Biomedical Libraries (CONBLS)
- Florida Consortium of Academic Libraries of Medicine (FCALM)
Education
- MLIS, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, 1994
- M.S., Kharkiv State Institute of Culture, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1990