During the past 36 years, Nolan Lushington has worked with over 200 libraries as a library consultant. He has been chairman of the American Library Association Buildings and Equipment section and a juror on the joint ALA/American Institute of Architects Building Awards Program. Mr. Lushington was a Council on Library Resources Fellow and, with Anthony Tappe, he has taught the summer workshop in Public Library Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design for the past 19 years. For over two decades, Mr. Lushington was the Director of the Greenwich Public Library in Connecticut, and for 11 years was Associate Professor at the library school at Southern Connecticut State University.

He is married to Louise Blalock, Chief Librarian at Hartford Public Library and 2001 Library Journal Librarian of the Year, and has 7 children and 11 grandchildren. Mr. Lushington also wrote Libraries Designed for Users (Neal-Schuman, 2002), first published in 1979 and in print for 20 years.