Background
Loper, Linda Sue was born on January 28, 1945 in Wakefield, Rhode Island, United States. Daughter of Delmas Field and Dora Belle (Hanna) Sneed.
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Linda Sue Loper
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Education
Bachelor, Peabody College, Nashville, 1966. Master of Library Science, Peabody College, Nashville, 1979. Doctor of Education in Educational Administration, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1988.
Career
Teacher Parkway School, Chesterfield, Missouri, 1966-1968, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1968-1971. Director city library Jackson George Regional Library. System, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 1979-1982.
Media center specialist Pascagoula Municipal School District, 1982-1983, Moore County School System, Lynchburg, Tennessee, 1983-1991. Reformed library Motlow State Community College, Tullahoma, 1983-1985. Director learning resource center Columbia State Community College, 1991-1999.
Chief Executive Officer Grant Seekers, Inc., 1996-1999, Loper Literary Agency, 1999—2001. Accounts services manager E.B. Stephens Company, 1999—2001. Special collections division manager Nashville Public Library., 2001—2005.
Library director Germantown (Tennessee) Community Library., 2005—2007. Director operations Wolf River Library. Consortium, 2005—2007.
Director development Library. Systems and Services LLC, 2007. Library director Warren County Memorial Library., Warrenton, North Carolina, 2007—2010, Duke University Center Documentary Studies Folklife Institute, 2009.
President Media Solutions, since 2010. Presenter TLA Annual Convention, Knoxville, 1998, 2005, 2006, American Association Women in C.C.s Regional Conference, 1997, LEAP State Department Education Conference for Library., Chattanooga, North Carolina Public Library., 2008, trustee conference. Career ladder participant Tennessee Education Department Level II.
TIM trainer Department Education, Nashville. Executive director Tennessee Board of Regents Media Consortium, 1993-1996. Chair professional staff organization Columbia State Community College, 1998-1999.
Presenter, judge 6th Annual Cumberland Writers Conference, Cookeville, Tennessee.
Achievements
Membership
President Moore County Friends of Library., Lynchburg, Tennessee, 1991. Board directors Moore County History and Genealogical Society, 1991. Member Tennessee Bicentennial Committee, Giles County, 1996.
Co-director Southern Tapestry, a Bicentennial oral history project. Secretary, member executive board Hope House Domestic Violence Shelter, 1993—1996, member advisory board, 1996—1999. Member steering committee Business, Industry, Education Partnership, 1994—1999.
Member advisory board Nashville Public television Community, 2003—2005. Emmy judging panel Cultural Programming Mid-East Division, 2004. Member Warrenton Women's Club, 2007—2010, Preservation Warrenton, 2007—2010.
Chairman Warren County Arts Council, 2009—2010. Member Cherry Hill Foundation. Fellow library Access, National Institute Library. for Future.
Member Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, American Information Association (Middle Tennessee chapter), Southeast Library. Association, Tennessee Library. Association (co-chair strategic planning committee 1996-1999), TENNSHARE (chair collection development committee 1996-1999), Moore County Education Association (treasurer, chair teachers study council, chair political action commission 1989-1991), Giles County Education Foundation United Daughters of the Confederacy, Daughters of the American Revolution, Tennessee Academy Library.
Collaborative (executive council 1996-1999), Society of Tennessee Archivists, Phi Delta Kappa, Beta Phi Mu, Delta Kappa Gamma.
Interests
Connections
Children: Matthew Lee Mathany, Amanda Virginia Mathany Van DerHeyden, Morgan Lynnclare Loper.
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Political Party
Democrat
Education
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1979
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1988
Awards
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Recipient Governor's Academy award State Department of Education, University Tennessee, 1988, Institute for Writing Tennessee History, University Tennessee, 1990, Governor's Conference on Information Science, Nashville, 1990.Recipient Governor's Academy award State Department of Education, University Tennessee, 1988, Institute for Writing Tennessee History, University Tennessee, 1990, Governor's Conference on Information Science, Nashville, 1990.