Is AFPLWATCH.com meant to be “objective”?
No. The facts it presents will be accurate, and errors brought to the webmaster’s attention will be corrected. But in addition to the need for reliable information about the current troubles in the library system is an equally important need for a place where voices and perspectives suppressed by the previous administration can be shared. The library system’s recently-deposed administrative regime routinely attempted to systematically marginalize the influence of anyone, no matter how competent or sincere, who disagreed with the regime’s draconian pronouncements, wrongheaded schemes, and waste of taxpayer dollars. Only those library system employees willing to completely mirror the administrative line were listened to or rewarded; all others were ignored, excluded, verbally or psychologically abused, threatened, punished – even when this treatment sabotaged an employee’s work or derailed an employee’s career. AFPLWATCH.com was established in November 2003 as a response on behalf of all
