As a direct result of Mary Kaye Hooker's abusive administrative
"style" and/or her destructive policy decisions, the following library
system managers, administrative specialists, subject specialists, and
computer experts have resigned, retired, or been involuntarily
transferred out of the Central Library since Hooker was hired as
Library Director in September 1999:
- Paulette Smith-Epps, Assistant Director for Public Services
- Ted Koppel, Assistant Director for Technology Services
- Ruby Jones, Technical Services Division Manager
- Bob Pound, Assistant Director for Finance
- Mike Ingram, Assistant Manager, Business Office
- Marjorie Waldon, Business Office Administrator
- Dr. Joseph Jordan, Auburn Ave. Research Library Administrator
- Dr. Phillip Cherry, Acting Administrator, Auburn Ave. Research Library
- Phyllis Trammell, Branch Group Manager
- Valerie Jackson, Branch Group Manager
- Audrey Q. Battiste, Human Resources Manager
- Debra Branton, Acting Human Resources Manager/Service Environment Manager
- Judith Lunsford, Public Information Officer
- Brian Williams, Development Officer
- Joyce Jelks, Acquisitions Manager
- Beth Oehlerts, Acquisitions Manager
- Willie Mae Harris, Head Cataloger*
- Louise White, Foreign Language & Nonbook Cataloger
- Marty Messmer, Computer Hardware Manager
- Paul Groshe, Webmaster
- Seung Ja Liu, Computer Software Manager**
- "Rich" Richburg, Computer Specialist
- Brenda Sherrell, Computer Specialist
- Matt Tavakolian, Computer Specialisit
- Don Williams, Computer Specialist
- Cal Gough, Adult Materials Selection Specialist
- Kay McPherson, Juvenile/YA Materials Selection Specialist
- Agatha Smith, Cataloging Specialist
- Irene Fields, Database Management Specialist
- Dowman Wilson, Interlibrary Loan Coordinator
- Stephanie McIver, Training Officer
- Jennye Guy, Development Director
- Eldridge Jackson, Security Coordinator
- Katharine Suttell, Telephone Reference Services Manager
- Sherri Bowers, Telephone Reference Services Assistant Manager
- Bill Munro, Central Library Administrator
- Caroline Edge, Administrative Assistant to the Central Library Administrator
- Nancy Powers, Central Library Ivan Allen Department Manager
- Tom Budlong, Central Library Ivan Allen Department Manager
- George Tuttle, Central Library Ivan Allen Department Manager
- Clay Payne, Central Library Ivan Allen Department Assistant Manager
- Lynne Pickens, Central Library Children's Department Manager
- Janet Bogle, Central Library Film/Video Department Manager
- Jean Cornn, Central Library Learning Center Manager
- Maureen Kelly, Central Library Popular Library Manager [May 2000]
- Maureen Kelly, Central Library Global Access Department Manager [January 2003]
- Sara Finley, Administrative Coordinator for the Director's Office
- Marianna Kaufman, Administrative Coordinator for the Director's Office
- Doug Goans, Central Library Humanities Specialist & Internet Expert
- Monica Foderingham-Brown, Central Library Reference Specialist
- Mary Moye, Central Library Government Documents Specialist
- Ken Eastman, Central Library Film Specialist
- Jacob Crouch, Central Library Arts Specialist
- Linda Thompson, Central Library Children's Literature Specialist
- Celeste Tibbets, Central Library Georgia & Family History Dept. Specialist
*Harris returned to AFPL shortly after Hooker was fired in May 2004.
**Liu's office is still at the library, but her supervisor works for the
Fulton County Information Technology Department.
In addition to the derailed professional careers resulting from
this extraordinarily large number of forced resignations, of involuntary, arbitrary, and
punitive transfers, and of earlier-than-planned retirements among seasoned administrative
employees, these actions--along with similar premature departures from
public service positions--collectively represent a deliberate and
profound squandering of the library's pool of human resources and in
irreparable losses to the library system's institutional memory.
The library system's operations were further disrupted by the former
Library Director's transfers to various branches of most of the employees who had been working
in the library system's Technical Services Division. These employees
had been responsible for making sure materials purchased from
the library vendors were the materials the branches had actually
requested, were purchased at the maximum discounts available, were
fully and correctly processed before being shipped, and were correctly
cataloged. There is general agreement among most branch personnel
that the extensive and expensive damage to the library's collections
and to the usefulness of its catalog are much greater than any imagined
benefits to the branches where the the former Director reassigned these
Technical Service Division employees. Much of the important work those
employees did on behalf of the branches is simply not getting done any
longer, or is being done inconsistently, inefficiently, or
incompetently--resulting in even more work for branch staff.
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