[This chart, first created in the middle of the chaotic Hooker regime (1999-2004), was originally called "Missing Links in AFPL Branch Management." The chart was given its current title, and its introduction was totally or partially revised on September 11, 2006, April 11, 2007, and July 28, 2008.]

¹Former AFPL Director Ron Dubberly appointed Bill Munro as Central Library Administrator and Munro served in that capacity during Dubberly's, Julie Hunter's, and Ella Yates' regimes before the trustees hired Mary Kaye Hooker as Library Director and Carolyn Garnes as Deputy Director.

Garnes replaced Central Library Administrator Bill Munro with Ponce Branch Manager Susan Earl (and Munro became manager at Ponce).

Earl resigned as Central Library Administrator in October 2003. Garnes appointed Child & Youth Services Administrator Doris Jackson as Acting Central Library Administrator (as well as Child & Youth Services Administrator) in late 2003; Jackson resigned on December 27, 2005.

In January 2006, Library Director John Szabo appointed Ponce Branch Manager Bill Munro as Interim Central Library Administrator. Szabo returned Munro to Ponce in July 2008.

²Holloman was branch manager of the Ocee Branch, and before that had managed the East Atlanta Branch.

³Burton's appointment was announced on November 15, 2004, over three months after the library announced (on August 4th) it would recruit a replacement for Skerrett. For the nine months before Burton was hired, Northeast's Acting Manager was Leona Bolch, who was transferred to Northeast from her position as manager at Alpharetta. As a result of an employee grievance, Bolch returned to Alpharetta on November 5th.

⁴Approximately a week after Szabo announced the appointment of Ocee manager Gayle Holloman as the next Interim Administrator of the Central Library, Branch Group Administrator Anne Haimes appointed Jordan as Ocee's Interim Manager

⁵Payne's promotion created a vacant manager position at Stewart-Lakewood, which Payne had previously managed.

Backgound of the amazingly convoluted management situation at South Fulton:

South Fulton's first manager, Gladys Dennard, was murdered by a branch employee in August 2002. Then-Deputy Director Carolyn Garnes eventually hired another manager, Cheryl Miller-Holmes. Miller-Holmes was eventually transferred to Alpharetta (whose manager had been transferred to fill a vacancy at Northeast), but later resigned.

A series of different managers were temporarily reassigned to manage South Fulton for varying lengths of time. At first, various C52-level managers of other branches were dragooned for this assignment: Bill Munro (from Ponce), Stephanie McIver (from Southwest Regional), Maureen Kelly (from Georgia-Hill), Lu Conti (from Roswell Regional), and Michael Hickman (from East Point).

Recruitment of lateral transfers for South Fulton branch manager position was not authorized until July 29, 2004. (Due to the county's hiring freeze, no requests for promotions were were permitted, and whoever would've successfully gotten that job through a lateral transfer would have created a vacancy at their own location.) Although it is unclear whether any requests for lateral transfers were made, no lateral transfer was announced.

At this point, library administrators began drafting C-51-level managers to manage South Fulton, apparently because South Fulton's own C-51 Assistant Manager has already served several times as Acting Manager in between the parade of C-52 level managers who had been temporary assigned to manage South Fulton.

The first C-51-level manager assigned to South Fulton was Fairburn "Interim Manager Michelle Carnes, but--presumably because of her C51 status--her assignment there did not last until Fairburn re-opened January 3, 2005. (Carnes' salary status aside, observers find it interesting that Carnes continues pursuade her supervisors to allow her to pick and choose her job assignments, while others do not enjoy this privilege.)

Former Northside Branch (and C52 level) Manager Emma Stanley-Tate (who at the time was "working" in the managerless Branch Services Office) was assigned to work at South Fulton after Carnes's stint there, but SFB staff reported that Stanley-Tate showed up at the branch only a few times during her official tenure there.

Margaret Bradford (from Roswell, and another C-51-level employee) was then assigned to temporarily manage South Fulton. Haimes said at the December 2004 managers' meeting that Bradford would be staying on at South Fulton until a permanent manager was hired, but on December 22, 2004, Haimes announced that she had replaced Bradford with Eugene Haston, a C-52 manager who had been managing the Northside Area Library ever since the Bookmobile Service (which he previously managed) was suspended. Haimes also announced December 22nd that Emma Stanley-Tate, who had managed Northside before Haston, would resume managing Northside.

Meanwhile (apparently in late November 2004), Interim Director Haimes finally asked the County Manager to thaw South Fulton's frozen vacant manager position so it could be filled permanently. On December 20th, Haimes authorized a recruiting announcement for this position, but "only...to full-time permanent employees" of the library system (vs. outside candidates). January 7, 2005 was the deadline for applications, and interviews were conducted in late January. Haimes announced at the February managers' meeting that Payne was the successful candidate.

⁶McIver's retirement created a vacant position at Southwest. Interim Library Director Anne Haimes authorized recruitment to fill this position through an internal promotion or a lateral transfer. The deadline for applications was January 7, 2005. Interviews were held in late January. At the February 3rd managers meeting, Haimes announced the name of Southwest's next manager, Cynthia Hunter, who was among several inside and outside candidates who had interviewed for the position.

Hunter reported to work on February 23, 2005; she resigned in October 2005. Shortly thereafter, Branch Group Administrator Anne Haimes transferred former Bookmobile manager Eugene Haston (who had been working since the abolition of the Bookmobile in Haimes' office) to Southwest as its Acting Manager.

Recruitment for Southwest's manager position was never announced. On April 6, 2006, Haimes announced to the other branch managers that funding for the vacant manager position at Southwest had been sacrificed in the most recent round of county budget cuts, and that she had appointed Haskins as the branch's permanent manager.

⁷Bolch's management of Alpharetta was interupted by a nine-month (March - November 2004) temporary appointment to manage the Northeast Branch.

⁸In May 2000, Mary Kaye Hooker transferred two C-52 Central Library managers (Suttell and Powers) to the Buckhead branch, and Hooker named Suttell the branch manager. When Suttell retired, Interim Library Director Anne Haimes did not conduct competitive interviews for the vacancy Suttell's retirement created; instead, Haimes appointed Powers as manager of Buckhead.

⁹On April 25, 2007, Branch Services Administrator Anne Haimes announced that Stewart-Lakewood manager Andrea Akiti had been promoted to manager at Northside, effective May 2, 2007.

Background:

For most of 2004, Northside's Acting Manager was Eugene Haston, the former manager of the Bookmobile, whose services the Board had "temporarily" suspended. On December 22, 2004, Interim Library Director Anne Haimes transferred Haston from Northside to the South Fulton Regional Library to be its Acting Manager. Two days earlier, Haimes had authorized recruitment for the South Fulton manager position from a pool of qualified candidates currently working in the library system; a manager was hired in February 2005. Meanwhile, Emma Stanley-Tate, Northside's previous manager, was transferred back to Northside, where she again served as manager until her retirement on December 12, 2006. Recruitment for the vacant manager position was authorized December 27, 2006.

¹⁰Library Director John Szabo appointed former Ponce manager Bill Munro to the post of Interim Central Library Administrator effective January 25, 2006; Szabo appointed Ponce Assistant Manager Cal Gough as Interim Ponce Manager effective the same date. In July 2008, Munro returned to Ponce as manager.

¹¹Former Adamsville/Collier Heights manager Donnie Dixon retired effective December 27, 2005. Branch Group Administrator Anne Haimes replaced Dixon by soliciting applications from within the organization. After interviews with those applicants, Haimes selected Ms. Bennett, who had previously worked in the Teen Center of AFPL's Central Library.

¹²Brown had worked with Brenda Hunter at the Southwest Regional Branch; after former Deputy Director Carolyn Garnes hired Hunter as Collection Development Librarian and downgraded the salaries of the two selection specialist positions in the Collection Development Unit, Hunter hired Brown as the Unit's Adult Selection Specialist. A few years later, Brown transferred to a vacant position at the South Fulton Regional Branch, where he was working when Branch Services Administrator hired him as manager of the Fairburn Branch to replace Michelle Carnes.

Although Brown reported to Fairburn sometime in late June, Haimes did not announce his appointment until a library managers' meeting on July 5th; she announced the appointment to the library staff in a July 20th email message.

Background:

The branch's manager (until her death in the autumn of 2002) was Janis Steingruber; the branch's next manager (until her resignation effective May 1, 2007) was Michelle Carnes.

From 2001 to 2003, Michelle Carnes had been administrative assistant to former Deputy Director Carolyn Garnes. After Garnes resigned, Interim Acting Library Director Anne Haimes appointed Carnes as Interim Manager of AFPL's Collection Development Unit, a position Carnes held for eight months.

On March 31, 2004, the library administration had announced it was recruiting for a librarian interested in and qualified for a "temporary assignment" as manager of the Fairburn branch; the application deadline was April 8th. However, after library director Mary Kaye Hooker was dismissed in May 2004, Interim Library Director Anne Haimes transferred Carnes to Fairburn as its new manager, announcing the reassignment at a monthly meeting of AFPL managers on June 3, 2004.

Library employees were notified April 20, 2007 that Carnes would be resigning from her position as Fairburn's manager effective May 1, 2007, and would be moving to Chicago

¹³The Kirkwood manager position became vacant on December 12, 2006, when Ms. Nails retired. Recruitment for the vacant manager position was authorized December 27th. Ms. Walker's appointment was announced April 9, 2007. Walker was formerly an employee of AFPL's Southwest Branch.

¹⁴Recruitment for the Peachtree manager vacancy was not announced until March 25, 2005. The position was filled in early May 2005.

¹⁵At a managers' meeting on July 5th, Branch Services Administrator Anne Haimes announced that a candidate from outside the library system had accepted the position, but would not be reporting to the branch until August 2007, due to the county's latest hiring freeze. In a July 20th email message to library staff, Haines announced the new manager's name.

Background: Stewart-Lakewood manager Clay Payne's promotion to manager at South Fulton in February 2005 created a vacant manager position at Stewart-Lakewood. Recruitment for that position was announced March 25, 2005; it was filled in early May 2005 by Andrea Akiti. Ms. Akiti was promoted to manager of the Northside Branch effective May 2007, creating the latest management vacancy at Stewart-Lakewood.

¹⁶In early September 2004, Haimes transferred Kelley Flowers from the South Fulton Branch to manage Bowen Homes. This lateral transfer was not announced until several months later.

¹⁷Recruitment for the East Atlanta Branch manager position was authorized July 29, 2004, and interviews were conducted by early September. In a November 29th memo, Interim Library Director Anne Haimes announced the Thompson's appointment by Branch Group Administrator Barbara Osborne-Harris. (Osborne Harris resigned shortly thereafter.)

¹⁸Library employees were notified on March 23, 2007 that, effective March 26th, Ms. Kelly had been temporarily reassigned to the library system's Acquisitions Unit for six months, and that Georgia-Hill's interim manager for that six-month period would be Daniel Asomah, assistant manager of the Central Library's Children's Department. Kelly and Asomah both continue their respective "temporary" appointments.

¹⁹When the former board of trustees closed the MLK branch, Ms. Washington was transferred to the East Point Branch. When the MLK branch reopened on November 20, 2004, Ms. Washington resumed managing it.

²⁰Ms. Williams retirement was effective December 30, 2006. Recruitment for the Perry Homes vacancy was announced February 15, 2007, with a March 1st deadline for internal applicants. Clemons, an employee with the Central Library's Instructional Learning Center, was appointed Perry Homes manager on April 9, 2007.

²¹Background of the status of the library's Bookmobile:

Several years ago, the former board of trustees "temporarily" suspended the library's Bookmobile Services, and its manager, Eugune Haston, was reassigned to temporarily manage the Northside Branch (its former manager, Emma Stanley-Tate, having been temporarily reassigned to the Branch Services Office).

Haston was later reassigned to serve as South Fulton's final Acting Manager; when a permanent manager was hired for South Fulton in February 2005, Haston was again reassigned, this time to temporarily operate the library system's Branch Services Office while Anne Haimes served as Interim Library Director. After Haimes returned to her position as Branch Group Administrator and the manager hired by Haimes to manage Southwest resigned in October 2005, Haimes reassigned Haston as Southwest's Acting Manager.

In April 2006, Haimes announced that she had appointed Hastin as Southwest's permanent manager.

For several years there was no public discussion of the Bookmobile's future until it was announced at a February 2007 library managers' meeting that "limited" Bookmobile service would be reinstated sometime in 2007.

The revived Bookmobile service will operate out of the Central Library rather than, as before, as a part of Branch Services.

Recruitment for two Bookmobile positions (a C42 librarian and a B22 driver) was authorized February 14, 2007, with a March 1st application deadline for internal candidates.

Librarian Lisa Block was hired effective May 2, 2007; she was supervised by Central Library Children's Department manager Kellye Carter.

Just before interviews for a bookmobile driver were conducted at the end of July, both Carter and Block resigned. Kaulback was hired in October (?) 2007 to replace Block.