Dr. Ruth Thompson created LNX Systems for the City of Glendale, California. She is a senior administrator at the Glendale Public Library where the LNX project is located, and a partner in Thompson McKernan Associates, where she consults on information issues. She has been involved in local information infrastructure development since 1987, when she headed Glendale’s InfoNet project. Before becoming involved in libraries and information issues, Dr. Thompson was a professor of American literature.