Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania (Lithuania).
Jolanta Budriūnienė, PhD, is the Director of the Documentary Heritage Research Department of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. She is the author and editor of handbooks, collections of articles, academic publications, and popular articles. She has participated in numerous international scientific conferences and has managed and implemented various national and international projects.
J. Budriūnienė completed research internships at the Institute of Lithuanian Culture in Germany (2013) and the Center for Lithuanian Studies and Research in Chicago (2017). Additionally, she served as an expert at the Lithuanian Culture Council (2014-2016) and has been on the board of the non-governmental organisation Baltic Heritage Network (BaltHerNet) (since 2012) and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) (since 2017). In 2021, she defended her PHD thesis on the topic of „Communication strategies in the English-Language Cultural Lithuanain American Press (1950-1990)“.
Her main areas of interest include cultural heritage protection and research, as well as cultural studies of Lithuanian diaspora.