Lynn Brooks:  

Lynn Brooks was born in a small farming community in Northwest Iowa, and grew up on a farm nearby until he attended St. Olaf College, in Northfield, Minnesota. Lynn's wife Marilyn grew up on a farm a mile away; they met when they were three years old and rode the same school bus K through 12. Marilyn attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN, and later received her M.S. in Nursing Science from Catholic University and her adult nurse practitioner certification from the University of Maryland. She was in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and spent one year in Vietnam at Cu Chi as a MASH nurse. Marilyn and Lynn married and moved after college graduation to the Washington, D.C. area, where Lynn attended two years at the School of Graduate Studies, University of Maryland. He then worked in defense intelligence for two years before entering what was called then Electronic Data Processing and is now called Information Technology at the Library of Congress. Lynn was a lead designer in implementing the Library's in-house-developed bibliographic online input, update, and retrieval system called MUMS, based on the MARC record format. Between 1992 and 1999, Lynn made ten trips to Ukraine to assist the Parliament of Ukraine in technology assistance, and then from 1999 through 2002, he made three trips to the Russian Federation to assist the two major national libraries in the Russian Federation in digital...Expand for more