Katie Lamb Public Library

Baby & Toddler Storytime - Explore the world through taste
2022-09-28 10:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
This storytime has been combined for both babies and toddlers with up to 30 minutes of easy stories, music, and fun! For up to 36 months.
There is no registration but space is limited. Please arrive 5 to 10 minutes before the program. Strollers will need to be left outside the meeting room.

Kids Lego Robotics
2022-09-28 16:00 - 17:00, 2022-10-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
This Kid’s Club is featuring a STEM program that combines colorful LEGO elements and Scratch coding to build projects with limitless creative designs. This program is for school-age kids K-5th grade.
No pre-registration.

Library will be closed
2022-09-29 | TN
The Library will be closed today for staff enrichment. Items should not be due today. Please return materials at the back of the building.

Outdoor Baby & Toddler Storytime
2022-10-03 10:30 - 11:00, 2022-10-10 10:30 - 11:00, 2022-10-17 10:30 - 11:00 | Collegedale Commons, 4910 Swinyar Dr., Collegedale, TN, 37315, United States
This outdoor storytime is for both babies and toddlers with up to 30 minutes of easy stories, music, and fun. It meets outdoors at the Commons Pavilion. Please bring a yoga mat or blanket to the program. For ages up to 36 months.

Kids Minecraft
2022-10-03 16:00 - 16:45 | 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 if you’d like! This realm uses Java edition. Ages 7 to 11.

Preschool Storytime
2022-10-04 10:30 - 11:00, 2022-10-11 10:30 - 11:00, 2022-10-18 10:30 - 11:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Preschool Storytime is full of stories, songs, fingerplays, and rhymes to both entertain your little one and prepare them with early literacy skills. Ages 3-6
There is no registration but space is limited. Please arrive 5 to 10 minutes before the program. Strollers will need to be left outside the meeting room.

Adult Craft: 3D Paper Pumpkin
2022-10-04 17:00 - 18:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us in the library meeting room to make a festive fall pumpkin decoration out of card stock.

Baby & Toddler Storytime
2022-10-05 10:30 - 11:00, 2022-10-12 10:30 - 11:00, 2022-10-19 10:30 - 11:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

One-to-One Financial Advice
2022-10-05 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 nonprofit 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:
• Help strengthen your financial position.
• Build emergency savings and manage debt.
• Protect your financial future.
• Care for your family after you’re gone.
• Invest with purpose and manage your assets.
• Explore more tax-efficient ways to manage your money.
• Save and prepare for income in retirement.
There are 4 sessions available starting at 5:00 p.m. 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. If you do not get a session this time, the library will be hosting Anthony again on future dates.​ *No products will be sold*

Outdoor Preschool Storytime
2022-10-06 10:30 - 11:00, 2022-10-13 10:30 - 11:00, 2022-10-20 08:00 - 17:00 | Collegedale Commons, 4910 Swinyar Dr., Collegedale, TN, 37315, United States
Outdoor Preschool Storytime is full of stories, songs, fingerplays, and rhymes to both entertain your little one and prepare them with early literacy skills. This program meets outdoors at the Commons Pavilion. Please bring a yoga mat or blanket to the program. Ages 3-6.

Teen Minecraft
2022-10-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Hang out in our Minecraft realm and build cool structures and collaborate with projects with other teens. For ages 10 and up. You can bring your own tablet or laptop for this program.

NEW School-age Storytime
2022-10-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
This NEW storytime will meet once a month for school-age children that features stories and craft.

Local Author Dawn Hogan
2022-10-09 14:00 - 15:00 | City Hall​, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37315, United States
Join guest author Dawn Hogan on Sunday, October 9, to hear about her debut novel, Unbroken Bonds. This free presentation will begin at 2 p.m. in the West Room of Collegedale City Hall. She is the final presenter in the 2022 Emily McDonald Local Author Series, a gift to the community from the Friends of Collegedale Public Library.Hogan’s novel was inspired by the real-life experiences of four women who met in a Tennessee home for unwed mothers and became friends for life. In 1956, teenage girls are told that getting pregnant before marriage is the worst thing they can do. Joanna, Prissy, Jessie, and Mary are forced by their families into incarceration at the Frances Weston Home for Unwed Mothers in Knoxville. They endure a culture of shame and the soul-crushing tactics of nuns who coerce the teenagers into relinquishing their illegitimate babies. When tragedy strikes years later, these four women must decide whether to keep their past secret or to discover the fates of the children they were forced to give away.Hogan is a full-time author who lives in Huntsville, Ala., with her husband. She’s the mother of four grown children and a grandmother of two. She majored in English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and has always been drawn to creative endeavors, from Lego collector kits to crafting and remodeling projects. For 15 years, she and her husband owned a creative photography business and chronicled more than 400 weddings.She discovered her interest and talent for researching historical fiction when a friend gave her unsealed State of Tennessee adoption records and asked Hogan to find her birth mother, which she did in a matter of weeks. The stories and statistics she uncovered during that process led her to this book project.

Teen Craft - Troll Horns
2022-10-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Get yourself into a mischievous mood with your very own painted troll horns. Watch out!

Financial Workshop - Will your taxes affect your retirement?
2022-10-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
The Library is offering quarterly financial workshops with Anthony Young who is a financial advisor from Thrivent, a nonprofit financial organization. The first two workshops will be held on Friday, October 14.
10:00 Workshop is Will Your Taxes Affect Your Retirement?
It’s critical to have a solid understanding of the tax status of investments to make informed decisions and avoid paying more than the fair share. In this workshop, attendees learn:

How future tax changes may create the potential for higher taxes.
Ways to create tax-free retirement income.
How Social Security is taxed.
How to work efficiently within current tax brackets.

Financial Workshop - Investing for Retirement
2022-10-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
The Library is offering quarterly financial workshops with Anthony Young who is a financial advisor from Thrivent, a nonprofit financial organization. The first two workshops will be held on Friday, October 14.
4:00 Workshop is Financial Foundations: Investing for Retirement
Attendees will learn four smart retirement planning moves, tactical changes they can make that set up their retirement foundation. Then they will learn how to help future-proof their tax bracket and pick up an answer to that nagging question about Social Security.

CrimeReads Book Club
2022-10-15 15:30 - 16:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
This month our book is A Test of Wills, the first title in Charles Todd’s Ian Rutledge series. Come join us for a discussion and a dessert!
In 1919, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge remains haunted by World War I, where he was forced to have a soldier executed for refusing to fight. When Rutledge is assigned to investigate a murder involving the military, his emotional war wounds flare. It is a case that strikes dangerously close to home–one that will test Rutledge’s precarious grip on his own sanity.

Kids Lego Club
2022-10-17 16:00 - 16:45 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
What’s better than a massive pile of LEGO bricks? Absolutely nothing! Stop by our kid’s LEGO club and enjoy 45 minutes of LEGO free play. Ages 6 to 12.

Computer Basics: Microsoft Excel
2022-10-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Have you ever wanted to learn the basics of Microsoft Excel but weren’t sure where to start? Join us in the library meeting room on Tuesday July 12 at 6:00 pm to learn the basics of Excel!

Common Thread
2022-10-18 17:00 - 18:00 | TN
This month’s theme is “An Epistolary Novel.” Email olivia.forehand@dev.collegedalepubliclibrary.org for your Zoom invitation.

Teen Games
2022-10-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Come and play our board games, or bring your own board games or video games and play with other teens!
