Katie Lamb Public Library

Preschool Storytime
2024-07-25 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-07-23 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-07-16 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-07-11 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-07-09 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-07-02 10:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | TN
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.*

Baby and Toddler Storytime
2024-07-24 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-07-22 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-07-17 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-07-15 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-07-10 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-07-08 10:30 - 11:00 | TN
This early literacy program for ages 0 to 36 months is designed for activity and movement. *This event will be capped at 40 participants.*

Senior Craft: Donut Art in conjunction with Parks & Recreation
2024-07-24 10:00 - 11:00 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
Join us for a morning with community Seniors! We will each select a donut and then paint our individual interpretations of the donuts on small canvases. Once the art is complete – we will then eat!

Community Craft Swap
2024-07-23 17:00 - 19:00 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
Join the Collegedale Public Library and the Collegedale Parks and Recreation Department for our 1st Annual Community Craft Swap. We will have the West Room in Collegedale City Hall set aside for all community members to bring extra, unused, defunct, etc crafting materials to share and swap with others in the community. Maybe you bought the supplies for a crating project that fell by the wayside? Instead of letting the materials collect dust, bring these out for others to peruse. Maybe you overbought ribbon or paints or stamps or stickers and so on? One of your neighbors may be able to use your extras in their classroom, church, synagogue, home, etc! What do you need to do? Just show up by 5:00 PM with your crafting supplies to display on a table. Browse other tables also, if you like.

Paws to Read with Therapy Dog
2024-07-23 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Meet Atreyu! This pup is all ears and ready to hear you read to him during our Paws to Read hour. Pick a book from our shelves and read to Atreyu or visit with him. If you are shy around dogs, you can watch Atreyu while you do the small craft provided. For safety, we will limit the number of people in the room with Atreyu at one time.

Creature Features: Wallaby
2024-07-22 16:00 - 16:30 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
Join us for an exciting event in the west room at city hall! Creature Features will visit us to present their Wallaby 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.
Registration will open July 1st.

Local Author Visit: Miranda Smith’s Not My Mother
2024-07-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join the Collegedale Friends of the Library as they host local author Miranda Smith who will discuss his book – Not My Mother – Mystery/Thriller

Byron loves his job as a marriage counselor but is disappointed when he begins to lose clients because of his marital status. Julie is similarly frustrated with the world’s view that she must not be happy because of her lack of a husband. Byron devises a simple answer, an ad in the paper asking for a wife. Julie thinks it’s crazy but ultimately realizes it might be exactly what she needs. It works perfectly and both are happily single, but married. Julie isn’t getting set up and Byron can even tell his clients that to help his marriage he makes sure to give his wife some space. But the honeymoon phase wears off and in time they find that always making excuses for why their spouse isn’t easy. They begin to invite each other to activities to avoid excuses, and before long Byron discovers he has fallen in love with his wife. She however has decided she wants to find real love and thinks Charlie might be the answer. She asks for a divorce. Can Byron do what he has asked hundreds of couples to do and fight for his marriage?

About the Author: Miranda Smith writes domestic and psychological suspense. She is drawn to stories about ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Her debut novel, SOME DAYS ARE DARK, will be released in March 2020.

Miranda has been a staff writer at a local newspaper and a secondary English teacher. When it comes to fiction, Miranda writes about complicated women, dark impulses and Southern settings.

She lives in East Tennessee with her husband and three children.

Crime Reads Book Club: Last Bus to Woodstock (Book #1 Inspector Morse series) by Colin Dexter
2024-07-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter..

The first intriguing case that began Colin Dexter’s phenomenally successful Inspector Morse series.
Beautiful Sylvia Kaye and another young woman had been seen hitching a ride not long before Sylvia’s bludgeoned body is found outside a pub in Woodstock, near Oxford. Morse is sure the other hitchhiker can tell him much of what he needs to know. But his confidence is shaken by the cool inscrutability of the girl he’s certain was Sylvia’s companion on that ill-fated September evening. Shrewd as Morse is, he’s also distracted by the complex scenarios that the murder set in motion among Sylvia’s girlfriends and their Oxford playmates. To grasp the painful truth, and act upon it, requires from Morse the last atom of his professional discipline.
Norman Colin Dexter was an English crime writer, known for his Inspector Morse novels.
He started writing mysteries in 1972 during a family holiday: “We were in a little guest house halfway between Caernarfon and Pwllheli. It was a Saturday and it was raining – it’s not unknown for it to rain in North Wales. The children were moaning … I was sitting at the kitchen table with nothing else to do, and I wrote the first few paragraphs of a potential detective novel.” Last Bus to Woodstock was published in 1975 and introduced the world to the character of Inspector Morse, the irascible detective whose penchants for cryptic crosswords, English literature, cask ale and Wagner reflect Dexter’s own enthusiasms. Dexter’s plots are notable for his use of false leads and other red herrings.
The success of the 33 episodes of the TV series Inspector Morse, produced between 1987 and 2001, brought further acclaim for Dexter. In the manner of Alfred Hitchcock, he also makes a cameo appearance in almost all episodes. More recently, his character from the Morse series, the stalwart Sgt (now Inspector) Lewis features in 12 episodes of the new ITV series Lewis. As with Morse, Dexter makes a cameo appearance in several episodes. Dexter suggested the English poet A. E. Housman as his “great life” on the BBC Radio 4 programme of that name in May 2008. Dexter and Housman were both classicists who found a popular audience for another genre of writing.
Dexter has been the recipient of several Crime Writers’ Association awards: two Silver Daggers for Service of All the Dead in 1979 and The Dead of Jericho in 1981; two Gold Daggers for The Wench is Dead in 1989 and The Way Through the Woods in 1992; and a Cartier Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement in 1997. In 1996 Dexter received a Macavity Award for his short story Evans Tries an O-Level. In 1980, he was elected a member of the by-invitation-only Detection Club.
In 2000, Dexter was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature.

Adult Silent Book Club
2024-07-18 17:30 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join the Collegedale Public Library for a book club without the assigned reading! We invite fellow book worms to join us for an hour of silent reading at the library with a 10-minute period of book discussions. You can share what you are currently reading and maybe pick up a book rec from a fellow participant. Bring your own book (BYOB) or borrow one of ours.
Schedule: 5:15-5:35 – settle in / discussion
5:35-6:35 – silent reading

Chattanooga Zoo: Everybody Poops
2024-07-18 10:30 - 11:30 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
The Chattanooga Zoo outreach will be presenting “Everybody Poops” for ages 5-12. Pre-registration is required for children only.
Registration will open July 1st.
This event will take place at City Hall West Room.

Outdoor Survival Skills For Kids
2024-07-18 10:00 - 11:00 | TN
Join us to learn outdoor survival skills with Collegedale Parks and Recreation!

One-on-One with a Financial Advisor
2024-07-17 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. *No products will be sold*
Pre-register today to reserve a spot! Registration will open July 1st.

Fiction Addiction Book Club: Beach Read by Emily Henry
2024-07-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing Beach Read by Emily Henry.

A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD! FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION AND BOOK LOVERS!
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.
They’re polar opposites.
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.
Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no-one will fall in love. Really.

Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers, People We Meet on Vacation, and Beach Read, as well as the forthcoming Happy Place. She lives and writes in Cincinnati and the part of Kentucky just beneath it.

Find her on Instagram @EmilyHenryWrites.

Origami Workshop: Airplanes!
2024-07-15 17:30 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join Ms. Shirley for some awesome airplane folding fun adventures when we make origami airplanes and other aircraft during this Summer Reading origami session.

String Theory
2024-07-13 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.

Intro to Yoga to Relax for Adults and Teens
2024-07-11 17:30 - 18:30 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
Community member Cyndi Allen will be leading us through a beginner yoga class focused on relaxation. Bring your own mat and meet in the west room at city hall.

ASL for Babies and Toddlers
2024-07-10 14:00 - 14:30 | 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 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. Sharon for a small taste of ASL communications!

Family Event: Kindness Rocks! Rock Painting!
2024-07-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us for more family Summer Reading program fun! We will paint rocks to encourage reading and/or kindness in our local community. Stop in and paint a rock, or two or three to take with you to hide for your neighbors to find!

Library Closed
2024-07-03 - 2024-07-04 | TN
The Library will be closed for the Fourth of July on Wednesday, July 3, 2024, and Thursday, July 4,2024. See you on Friday!

Adult Craft: Beach in Jar
2024-07-02 17:30 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Inflation is high and vacations may be limited this Summer – so join us at the library to create your very own ‘beach in a jar’ to enjoy at home. You may not be able to visit the shore this season or maybe you just want to pretend you are there while you’re counting down the days to your beach trip! We will make a beachy wonderland with all the coastal elements plus fairy lights. Crank up an ocean waves playlist, open your beach read and sit beside your jar and have a “Calgon take me away” moment!
Open to participants 17+ years, first come, first served.
