Bruno Dobrić was born in Pula in 1957. He has worked as a librarian in the Research Library of Pula (today's University Library of Pula) since 1985; he is a library advisor and current head of the University Library of Pula. He has a Ph.D. in Information Sciences and is studying the Austro-Hungarian period in Pula. He has been a president of the Viribus Unitis Society for Research into the Imperial and Royal Navy (k.u.k. Marine) in Pula since 1999, and he also served as president of the Istrian Library Association for two years.