Katie Lamb Public Library

March Cookbook Club: Recipe Swap & Dinner
2025-03-17 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Come and join us for a second Recipe Swap & Dinner during March at the Katie Lamb Public Library in Collegedale. Select a cookbook (from our collection or from your personal library) and prepare a dish of choice. Bring a copy of the recipe instructions to share with everyone while you sample other delicious home-cooked meals.Open to any adults, young adults/teens who enjoy cooking or baking and would like to participate – no library card membership required.

Preschool Storytime
2025-03-18 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-03-20 10:30 - 11:00 | 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. *This event will be capped at 40 participants.*
Theme: Transportation

Fiction Addiction Book Club: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
2025-03-18 16:30 - 17:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters.
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.
July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.
In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.
For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.
Amanda Peters is a writer of Mi’kmaw and settler ancestry. Her work has appeared in the Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, The Alaska Quarterly Review, the Dalhousie Review, and filling station magazine. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award (IVA) for unpublished prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers Trust Rising Stars program. Amanda has a certificate in creative writing from the University of Toronto and she is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe New Mexico. Amanda is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Theatre at Acadia University. She lives and writes in the Annapolis valley Nova Scotia with her fur babies Holly and Pook.

Medicare 101: Discussion and Q&A!
2025-03-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us for Medicare 101: Discussion and Q&A! This session is being led by Mr. Tim Reynolds, a local Licensed Medicare Advisor who is passionate about demystifying Medicare for future enrollees or those enrolled who are curious about any upcoming updates or changes to Medicare policy and procedure. This session and his services are free of charge to our library community and everyone is welcome, no library card requirement for attendance. Bring your questions and get clear answers!

Baby and Toddler Storytime
2025-03-19 10:30 - 11:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
This early literacy program for ages 0 to 36 months is designed for activity and movement. *This event will be capped at 40 participants.*
Theme: Transportation

Jr. STEAM Club
2025-03-19 16:30 - 17:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Get ready to pop, float, and blow some bubbles! Join us for a fun-filled hour of bubble-making and bubble science. Kids will create their own bubble wands, mix up bubble solutions, and learn about the science behind why bubbles float, change colors, and pop! Ages 5-10. (Limited Availability; first come, first served).

Creature Features: Arctic Fox
2025-03-20 16:30 - 17:00 | Chestnut Hall, 4750 Swinyar Dr., Collegedale, TN, 37363, United States
Join us for an exciting event in Chestnut Hall at the Commons! Creature Features will visit us to present their Arctic Fox and teach us about these interesting animals. This event is for all ages, however, there is only room for 40 people so sign up soon! All attendees will need to sign up for a spot, including adults.

String Theory
2025-03-22 15:00 - 16:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Bring any style of needlework project (knit, crochet, cross stitch, embroidery…) to this informal gathering and talk about books, recipes, and whatever else strikes your fancy while you work.

Adult Craft: Bunny Jar Vases
2025-03-25 17:30 - 19:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
It’s March – Spring and Easter are on the horizon! Join us for the March craft where we will be making bunny rabbit glass vases with silk flowers to decorate our Spring tables this season. All materials included, first come, first served. This adult crafting activity is open to any community member aged 17 and up – no library card membership is required.

Dungeons and Dragons Club
2025-03-25 17:30 - 19:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us this month to play D&D!
Ages 11+, Limited Availability

Sign Language Basics for Babies and Toddlers
2025-03-27 14:00 - 14:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Our Collegedale neighbor, student and library patron Ms. Ellie will be here to teach us some of the basics of ASL communication to toddlers and baby + their parent, grandparent or other guardian. She will demonstrate greetings, basic words and emotions in order to allow our youngest patrons to communicate before developing their verbal skills. Join Ms. Ellie for a taste of ASL communications for parents and babies/toddlers!

Crime Reads Book Club: Sanibel Flats (Doc Ford #1) by Randy Wayne White
2025-03-29 15:00 - 16:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Sanibel Flats (Doc Ford #1) by Randy Wayne White.
Its cool gulf breezes lured him from a life of danger. It’s dark undercurrents threatened to destroy him.
After ten years of living life on the edge, it was hard for Doc Ford to get that addiction to danger out of his system. But spending each day watching the sun melt into Dinkins Bay and the moon rise over the mangrove trees, cooking dinner for his beautiful neighbor, and dispensing advice to the locals over a cold beer lulled him into letting his guard down.
Then Rafe Hollins appeared. How could he refuse his old friend’s request-even if it would put him back on the firing line? Even if it would change forever the life he’d built here on Sanibel Island?
Randy Wayne White is an American writer of crime fiction and non-fiction adventure tales. He has written best-selling novels and has received awards for his fiction and a television documentary. He is best known for his series of crime novels featuring the retired NSA agent Doc Ford, a marine biologist living on the Gulf Coast of southern Florida. White has contributed material on a variety of topics to numerous magazines and has lectured across the United States. A resident of Southwest Florida since 1972, he currently lives on Pine Island, Florida, where he is active in South Florida civic affairs and with the restaurant Doc Ford’s Sanibel Rum Bar & Grill on nearby Sanibel Island.
This program is open to any community members, no library card membership required!

One-on-One with a Financial Advisor
2025-10-29 17:00 - 19:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
The Library is offering One-on-One sessions with Anthony Young who is a financial advisor from Thrivent, a non-profit financial organization. 30 minute sessions are free and private in our meeting room. Getting your finances in order isn’t always easy or clear. That’s why Anthony is here to provide the expertise and support you need. Whether you’re just starting out or preparing for a meaningful retirement, you deserve personalized financial guidance driven by what’s important to you. Together, we’ll assess your financial picture and explore how you can.
There are 4 sessions available starting at 5:00 PM: 5:00, 5:30, 6:00 and 6:30. Sessions are free, but limited. Please register for a session (only one session per person). If you need to cancel, please let us know so we can contact someone on the waiting list. Open to the community – no library card requirement. *No products will be sold*
Pre-register today to reserve a spot!
