I feel chatty and in need of organization

and part of my to do list at home

My current library to-do list for August

• Finish 500 Books Before Middle School (including arranging printing, stuffing envelopes, and marketing)
• Update the outreach brochure for all first school visits in September and arrange printing in bulk for the next few years.
• Print and laminate the Babies Need Books posters from ALSC. Update bathroom posters which are looking icky.
• Sign for August activity table and make more booklets
• Contact 3 elementary schools, 3 preschools, and homeschool group about field trips and programs in the fall. I am nothing if not optimistic. Start the conversation rolling on two potential author visits in spring and add in key school people to garden planning.
• Write report for Friends on monies spent on programs so far and why we need a sink (other than it would be a dream fulfilled for me and my colleagues)
• Summer report and monthly reports for Board, lay out year end report which I neglected to do last year and regretted, do first six months before I forget what happened
• Train new aide and supervise transition from summer to school year (scheduling, projects, etc.)
• Inventory (including processing missing lists and replacement orders)
• Paint train table (hopefully my aide, who assures me he knows exactly what to do) will take care of this.
• Grants - something I hate doing and wish we had someone else who could do it. I have at least two I'm looking at.
• Go over all the marketing with my associate - she's going to do as much as possible before she goes on leave.
• Draft winter/spring 2016 and prep programs as far as possible

Program Preparation

• get ipad with osmo loaded and prepped for circulation and use in Tap to Play, work with Pattie to plan TTP
• Bookaneers and Rock 'n' Read book club
• Star Wars party
• Fairy tale party
• Winter Wigglers
• We Explore Favorite artists
• Update outreach programs as needed
• Arrange performers
• Update santa's kitchen and Paws to Read
• Plan sewing workshop
• Plan after school clubs (actually use list of ideas)

Other - I may or may not get to any of these things

• DIY chalkboard blocks. There's a lumberyard in town that I could probably get the wood from, but it will need sanding and painting. Oy.
• Song cube (to use in Winter Wigglers)
• Flannelboards of Fernandes' Kitten series
• Add series/character stickers to juvenile fiction (like those I put on the series shelves)
• Update YA GN series spreadsheet and YA MANGA series spreadsheet
• 800 Lexile list
• Create library signs to hang at laundromat