Origami Workshop: Christmas Ornaments – Part Deux

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Back by popular demand! Join us for a free evening of learning the art of folding origami Christmas tree ornaments! We will make a beautiful star that converts to a wreath ornament - plus a stocking with candy cane, etc. Ms. Shirley and Ms. Emily will be back to teach us the necessary steps to […]

Happy Winter Solstice!

Today is Winter Solstice. Happy First Day of Winter! Today, we turn the corner toward longer days and a bit more sunlight. Dec. 21 is the winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year in Earth’s Northern Hemisphere. On Friday, we’ll start gaining a few seconds of daylight again.

Fiction Addiction Book Club: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the […]

Preschool Storytime

Preschool Storytime

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Preschool storytime is an early literacy program for ages 3 to 5 years old with stories, music, and movement.

Winter-Palooza

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

This program is open to all ages! Looking for something to do over the holiday break to beat the Winter blues? It’s cold outside -- so visit us inside the warm library for a Winter-themed movie, a super cool craft and snacks! We will show the adorable Academy Award Winning family film, Happy Feet on […]

Crime Reads Book Club: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at […]

Kids Minecraft

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Build anything you can imagine with a world of virtual blocks! Come visit the library’s realm and enjoy 45 minutes of freeplay. Eight laptops are available on a first come first come first serve basis – feel free to bring your own laptop with Minecraft installed if you’d like! This realm uses Java edition. Ages […]

Preschool Storytime

Preschool Storytime

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Preschool storytime is an early literacy program for ages 3 to 5 years old with stories, music, and movement.

Preschool Storytime

Preschool Storytime

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Preschool storytime is an early literacy program for ages 3 to 5 years old with stories, music, and movement.

Sign Language Basics for Adults, Teens & Tweens

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Our Collegedale neighbor and library patron Ms. Sharon will be here to teach us some of the basics of ASL communication. She will demonstrate greetings, basic words and emotions in order to greet our deaf friends in the community. Have you ever wished you could sign welcoming communications when greeting deaf or hard of hearing […]