AFPL Limps into the 21st Century:

Missing Links in AFPL's Administration   Updated January 7, 2009

Stability vs. Turnover Among AFPL's Branch Managers   Updated April 30, 2010

Previously-Posted AFPLWATCH News & Comment

News stories and editorials about AFPL published in other media in:

LibraryLand Archives
LibraryLand Sources   Updated April 25, 2009

Booklover Alert Archives:   2009    2008    2007    2006    2005    2004    2003

Mailbox Archive

"Hear/Say"   Updated November 12, 2008

Gossip Archive

Inquiring Minds Want to Know...   Updated August 10, 2009

Inquiring Archive

Wishful Archive

Challenges Archive

Wasted Archives:   2009   2008   2007   2006   2005   2004   2003

Quotation Archives:   Post-Hooker Era   Hooker Era

Comic Archive
Comic Relief Sources   Updated November 14, 2008

Upshot   Updated July 2004

Background   Posted June 2003

Documents:

Excerpts from the Lawyer's Brief for a Preliminary Injunction
Filed August 11, 2000

Excerpts from the Court Rulings on the Library’s Request
to Dismiss the Federal Lawsuit
Rulings announced December 1, 2000

Text of the U.S. Appeals Court's Ruling [in PDF Format]
Ruling issued June 6, 2003

The Hooker Dossier  Posted February 9, 2004; updated February 22, 2004

"Hooker's Howlers" - The Final Year (May 2003 - May 2004)

"Daily Affirmations" for Mary Kaye Hooker?  Posted Feb. 21, 2004

Hooker: Still Strategizing...  Posted August 17, 2003

The Ideal Library Director - And the One AFPL Got  Updated May 9, 2003

Staff Morale: In the Toilet  Updated May 5, 2003

Peacocks on Parade:
Embarrassing Antics of Our Clueless Trustees   Updated May 16, 2005

"Scoundrel Time"  Final Update: January 21, 2004

Findings from a study commissioned by AFPL's Trustees
to investigate evidence of of illegal personnel transactions
authorized by AFPL Director Mary Kaye Hooker:

Excerpts from the "AFPL Workplace Audit"   Submitted December 31, 2003

From the Group Grievance Filed by Library Employees:

	Library Board Approves Mass Transfers of Central Library Employees   May 24, 2000
	Text of the Group Grievance Protesting Mass Transfers   Grievance filed June 18, 2000
	Transcript of Hearing of the Group Grievance [in PDF Format]   Hearing conducted August 17, 2000
	Ruling of the Grievance Board   Ruling approved October 30, 2000

Calls for Restructuring the Library Board:

	Letter from Library Director Julie Hunter to Library Board Chair Roy Yancy    Letter dated October 22, 1997
	Library Staff Petition Calling for the Library Board of Trustees to Resign    Submitted July 6, 1998
	Excerpt from DMG Associates’ Library Management Audit    Report dated October 1999
	Comments from Signers of a Petition Urging Georgia Legislators    to Pass Library Board Reform Legislation    Petition Circulated in 2002 (regarding a board reform bill introduced for the second consecutive year)
	Text of Georgia Senate Bill 231    Introduced March 5, 2003
	Text of the Library Reform Bill Approved by the Legislature    Signed by the Governor May 19, 2004; effective July 1, 2004

Using the Georgia Open Records Act  Posted September 6, 2003

Metaphors Gone Crazy!  Posted July 29, 2004
Hurricane Hooker Heads for Florida  Posted April 1, 2004
"Urinetown"  Posted March 30, 2004
Questions They Left Off the Library Survey  Posted August 4, 2003
Reaching Out to the Underserved  May 14, 2003; updated August 2

The AFPL Brain Drain, 1999-2004 Updated August 17, 2004

AFPL's "Disappeared Ones"  Updated March 4, 2004

The Strip Mining of AFPL's Tech Services Department  November 18, 2003

Chronicles of Mediocrity:

Why Can't AFPL Supply Bestsellers?
Updated March 23, 2004

Why Can't AFPL Provide Reliable Databases?
Updated October 3, 2003

Why Isn't AFPL's Catalog More User-Friendly?
Posted October 15, 2003

Crater Watch! 2002-2007