Contact Information: Department of Library Special Collections 206 Kentucky Building Western Kentucky University 1906 College Heights Blvd. #11092 Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101-1092 Phone: (270) 745-3246 FAX: (270) 745-6264 Email: sue.lynn.mcdaniel@wku.edu

Education
Special Projects
Research
Public Services
Awards/Grants
Public Speaking

• M.S.L.S. Library Science. (1987). University of Kentucky, Lexington
• M.A. History (1983). Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green
• A.B. History (1981). Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green

Special Projects

• CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION – Partnered with other university personnel in the production of a major exhibit, pictorial history, public service announcements for television broadcasts, calendar and special events honoring Western’s first 100 years.
• KYLM WEBSITE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC – With Sandy Staebell and Betty Yambrek, designed and provided content for KYLM website template and 411 webpages (present version accessible at www.wku.edu/Library/kylm/ ), 2003.
• HILLTOPPERS QUARTET RESEARCH – Extensive research, including checking every page of the 1950s issues of Billboard for mention of the Hilltoppers quartet, charting all references found, photocopying for the collection first appearance of each unique advertisement or article, 2001-02.
• KENTUCKIANA DIGITAL LIBRARY SUBMISSIONS - Submitted and later edited for the Kentuckiana Digital Library of the Kentucky Virtual Library the descriptive inventories for 281 collections from Manuscripts, & Folklife Archives and 18 from University Archives, 2000-01.
• RECORD SERIES ADDITIONS TO STATE UNIVERSITY RETENTION SCHEDULES – Submitted Records Description Analyses to the State Records Analyst which resulted in the addition of 12 new records series to the State University Model Records Retention Schedule, 1998.
• “OVER HERE, OVER THERE” play and related video research assistance to researchers Mary Hall Surface and Amy Thompson for Warren County Bicentennial Celebration, 1997.
• EAST TENNESSEE BAPTIST ASSOCIATIONS’ CATALOGING - Created online catalog records for printed minutes never previously cataloged in OCLC or RLIN, 1993-94.
• WORLD WAR II 5Oth ANNIVERSARY - In April 1990, planned with Alumni Affairs a special emphasis on WKU’s World War II veterans in 1992; used alumni magazine, press release, solicitation letter to alumni, and alumni reunion events and exhibit.
• OPERATION DESERT STORM/VIETNAM WAR - Press release distributed statewide on Aug. 19, 1991 utilized by numerous newspapers and radio stations, and resulted in the acquisition of 17 collections.

Research

Pictorial History

• Nancy Disher Baird, Carol Crowe Carraco and Sue Lynn McDaniel, Western: The First 100 Years, 1906-2006 (Louisville: Harmony House, 2006).

Scholarly Refereed Articles

• “‘Blessed Are They That Mourn’: Expressions of Grief in South Central Kentucky, 1870-1910,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (Summer 1987), 213-36.
• “The Little Colonel: A Phenomenon in Popular Literary Culture,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (Spring 1991), 121-46.
• “‘Parting Friends’: Southeastern Kentucky Funeral Customs, 1880-1915,” The Filson Club History Quarterly (January 1993), 44-67.
• ‘Things Are Tough All Over’: An American Fighter Pilot in New Guinea” The Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Summer 1993), 113-21.
• “Fannie’s Flirtations: Etiquette, Reality, and the Age of Choice,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (Winter 1995), 43-78.

Research Papers Presented

• "Archiving Your School's Story Today Ensures Tomorrow's Successes," Council for the Advancement of Schools and Education (CASE) District III Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, February 6, 2007.
• “What Do I Collect? And Why?” Kentucky Council on Archives Spring Meeting, April 12, 2002.
• “Scrapbooking for the Ages: The Modern Scrapbook Movement,” Kentucky Council on Archives Spring Meeting, April 20, 2001.
• “Just Bummin’: A Young Woman’s Coming of Age," Ohio Valley History Conference, Clarksville, TN, Oct. 18, 1997.
• “Instilling Values: Frances Jewell Goes to Boarding School, 1907-1909,” Ohio Valley History Conference, Eastern Kentucky University, 1994.
• “Locating, Using & Protecting Written Resources,” Annual Meeting of the Tennessee Baptist Historical Society, Knoxville, TN, May 21, 1994.
• "Miss Fannie the Flirt," Images of Kentucky Women Lecture Series, Western Kentucky University - Glasgow campus, 1992.
• "Blessed Are They That Mourn: Death and Mourning in the Victorian Era," Historic Confederation of Kentucky Annual Meeting, Kentucky Museum, 1991.
• “‘Things Are Tough All Over’: An American Fighter Pilot in New Guinea,” Ohio Valley History Conference, Western Kentucky University, 1990.
• “Little Colonel Lessons in Life,” Women’s Studies Conference, Western Kentucky University, 1990.
• “From Phoenix to Bulldog: A Religious/College Archives’ Crusade,” Kentucky Council on Archives, Fall Meeting, Owensboro, 1989.
• “Annie Fellows Johnston,” Features At Four, Western Kentucky University - Glasgow Campus, March 1989.
• “Reflecting and Influencing the Lives of Young Women: Annie Fellows Johnston and the Little Colonel,” Ohio Valley History Conference, Eastern Kentucky University, 1988; Kentucky Philological Society Annual Meeting, Owensboro, 1989.
• “Annie Fellows Johnston, 1863-1931,” Lunchtime Learning Series, Western Kentucky University, March 1988.
• “From Phoenix to Bulldog: The Emergence of An Archives,” Ohio Valley History Conference, Western Kentucky University, 1987.

Major Exhibits

• "Little Colonel: A Romantic Vision of Life Long Ago In Oldham County," Oldham County History Center, November 17, 2006 - February 16, 2008.
• “Western 100,” Kentucky Museum, Opened January 22, 2006.
• “Big Red: The All-America Mascot Turns 25!” Kentucky Museum, Oct. 20, 2004 - July 2006.
• “Integra Bank P. S. I Love You: The Hilltoppers,” Kentucky Museum, May 20, 2002 - Nov. 1, 2003.
• “Western Presidents: A Century of Leadership” exhibit (assisted in selection of artifacts and label writing), May 1 - Fall 1998.
• “The Little Colonel: Memory, Imagination and Kentucky,” curator’s choice exhibit, Kentucky Museum, May 1994 - April 1995.
• “The Kentucky Building: Continuing the Dream,” Kentucky Museum (with Patricia Hodges, selected items and wrote labels for all items from Manuscripts and Folklife Archives), 1989.
• Abraham Lincoln gallery exhibit, Lincoln exhibit for the Two Millionth Volume Celebration, Special Collections, Margaret I. King Library, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Spring 1987.

Consultantships

• Served as consultant in the Daviess County Public Library’s discussion of Women’s History Collections, Oct. 8, 1998.
• Served as consultant and conducted courthouse records workshop for Jefferson County, TN, Historical Commission, Sept. 4, 1998.
• Served as Humanities scholar for “Mountain Mourning: Expressions of Grief in Victorian East Tennessee,” Museum of East Tennessee History, 1993-94.
• Consultant and interviewee for the Heartland Series segments, “A Death in the Family,” and “Expressions of Grief,” which was televised on Channel 10, Knoxville, TN, Feb. 21-March 4, 1994 and has re-aired many times over the years.
• Served as consultant for the Wake at Adsmore, a historic house in Princeton, KY, Jan. 1990.
• Served as a paid consultant assisting Dr. G. Frank Burns in his work with the Stockton Archives, Harry and Doris Vise Library, Cumberland University, Lebanon, TN, 1990.

Public Services

Professional Organizations - Committees and Offices

• Kentucky Archives Week State Committee, member with regular attendance, 2002 to present.
• State Historical Records Advisory Board, member with regular attendance, 2001 to present.
  Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau – Featured Speaker, 1998-2001, 2002-2005.
• Society of American Archivists – College & University Section Steering Committee, 2001-2002.
  Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual Library - Kentuckiana Digital Work Group, 1997-2001.
• State-Assisted Academic Library Council of Kentucky - Kentuckiana Digital Library Steering Committee, 1997-1999.
• State-Assisted Academic Library Council of Kentucky - Kentucky Collections Work Group, 1997-98.
• Filson Club, Otto A. Rothert Award selection committee, 1994; editorial advisory committee, 1992-1995.
• Kentucky Council on Archives, executive committee, 1989-1992.
• Tennessee Archivists Nominating Committee, 1994-95.
• Kentucky Council on Archives, chair, 1990-1991.
• KCA Fall Meeting Local Arrangements Committee, chair, 1989, 1990.
• Kentucky Advisory Committee to the White House Conference on Libraries and Information Science, 1990-1991.
• Kentucky Library Cabinet, 1990-1991.
• Governor’s Conference on Libraries and Information Services participant, 1991.
• Kentucky’s White House Implementation Committee, 1991.

Current Professional Memberships and Attendance

• Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society - membership, 1977-2007.
• Society of American Archivists - attendance, 1984, 1988, 2000-02; workshop instructor, 1988; membership, 1984-2007.
• Kentucky Council on Archives - membership, program participant and regular attendance at meetings, 1987-2007.
• Kentucky Historical Society - membership, 1987-2007.
• Midwest Archives Conference – membership, 2004-2007.

Current University Libraries Committees and Task Forces

• Digital Library & Museum Task Force, appointed 1999.
• University Libraries Collections and Connections Committee, appointed 2004.
• DLSC Kentucky Archives Week coordinating committee, appointed 2002.
• DLSC Logo/Branding Committee, appointed 2004.
• DLSC Rental Policy Team, appointed 2004.
• DLSC Space Planning Committee, appointed 2005.
• DLSC Brochure Committee, appointed 2005.
• DLSC Faculty Promotion and Tenure Guidelines revision committee, appointed 2006.

Current University Committees and University Organizations

• Survivor Chair, American Cancer Society Campus Relay for Life Planning, appointed 2002.
• American Cancer Society Campus Relay for Life planning committee & event participant.
• Hilltopper Athletic Foundation, joined 1996.
• Western Alumni Association, joined life member.
• First Baptist Student Ministry, faculty sponsor since 2005.
• Athletic Jersey Retirement Committee, appointed 2000.

Awards/Grants

Awards

• University Libraries and Information Technology Faculty Public Service award, 2006.
• Bowling Green High School Hall of Honor, 2006.
• Margie Helm Staff Award for Outstanding Performance, 2002.

Grants

• Project manager, Centennial Oral History Project, funded by Kentucky Oral History Commission, 2005-06.
• Project manager, Mammoth Cave Digitization Project, 2002-05.
• Creation of Cumberland University Archives, Lebanon, Tennessee, National Historical Publications and Records Commission Grant, 1984-85.

Public Speaking

List of presentations and lectures

 

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