Katie Lamb Public Library

Lego Robotics for Kids/Tween/Teen
2023-09-28 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Kids, Tweens, and Teens are invited to build cool Lego figures and make them move with simple scratch programming! No experience with Lego or coding required. Pre-registration is no longer required!

Indoor Playtime
2023-09-28 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-09-27 10:30 - 11:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us in the library for playtime! All children age 0-5.

Sign Language Basics
2023-09-27 17:00 - 18:00 | 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 neighbors, classmates, church friends, etc? If so, join Ms. Sharon for a small taste of ASL communications!
Meets in the Collegedale Public Library Meeting Room

Fiction Addiction Book Club - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
2023-09-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.
Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow’s unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.
After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.
Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors–until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late.
Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.

Unboxing a Sewing Machine
2023-09-26 17:00 - 18:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Have you been considering or are considering purchasing a sewing machine? Or are you simply interested in an overview of sewing on a sewing machine? In this mini-workshop our Assistant Director Sarah will open the box on a new sewing machine the library and show us the steps of setting up the machine, threading the needle, creating basic stitches as well as answer any questions that you may have during the process. This session may potentially help you with the process of buying and setting up a sewing machine.

Paws to Read with Therapy Dog
2023-09-26 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.

Outdoor Playtime
2023-09-26 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-09-25 10:30 - 11:00 | Imagination Station Pavilion, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us outside for playtime! All children age 0-5.

Kids Lego Club
2023-09-25 16:00 - 17:00 | 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.

Family Fun Bingo!
2023-09-21 17:30 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Collegedale Public Library’s BINGO game will play in rounds and is open to all ages! No library card is required. We will play for one full hour and winners will select from an assortment of fun prizes. Everything is provided to play and there is no entry fee. We hope to see you there!
Meets in the Collegedale Public Library Meeting Room.

Preschool Storytime
2023-09-21 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-09-14 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-09-07 10:30 - 11:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Storytime is an early literacy program for ages 3 to 5 years old with stories, music, and movement.

Kids Lego Robotics
2023-09-20 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 1st – 5th grade. No pre-registration required! If the eight spots fill-up, coding and STEM games will be available.

Baby and Toddler Storytime
2023-09-20 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-09-13 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

Adult Craft: Jack-o-Lantern Pumpkin Door Hangers
2023-09-19 17:00 - 18:15 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Welcome Fall! We will be painting wooden pumpkin door hangers for this month’s Adult Craft project. Once we paint and decorate our hangers we will add pretty, decorative Fall ribbon as the finishing touch. These will be great hung inside or outside the home – on a door, a wall hook, a porch or in a cozy cabin. It may still be hot outside – but we can still get in the Fall spirit (in the air conditioning) for this creative activity!

Outdoor Preschool Storytime
2023-09-19 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-09-12 10:30 - 11:00 | Imagination Station Pavilion, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, United States
Storytime is an early literacy program for ages 3 to 5 years old with stories, music, and movement. We are meeting at the Playground Pavilion, so bring your blanket or mat.

Outdoor Baby and Toddler Storytime
2023-09-18 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-09-11 10:30 - 11:00 | Imagination Station Pavilion, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, United States
This early literacy program for ages 0 to 36 months is designed for activity and movement. We are meeting at the Playground Pavilion, so bring your blanket or mat.

Fall Foliage & Origami Program
2023-09-17 15:00 - 16:30 | TN
Join us for a free Fall activity on Sunday afternoon! Our favorite local math teachers and community friends Ms. Shirley and Ms. Emily will be back to show us how to fold beautiful maple leaves and footballs for this fun Fall Sunday afternoon activity at the library.
Program will meet in the open space tables between the Young Adult books and the Adult Fiction book stacks.

Award-winning author Robert Bailey
2023-09-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Library Welcomes Author of Legal Thriller on September 17
Award-winning author Robert Bailey will discuss his newest release, The Wrong Side, at the Collegedale Public Library beginning at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 17. Often described as “Alabama’s John Grisham,” he is the final guest in the library’s 2023 Emily McDonald Local Author Series.
For the past 20 years, Bailey has worked as a civil defense trial lawyer in his hometown of Huntsville, Ala., where he lives with his wife and three children. He received the Beverly Hills Book Award for Legal Thriller of the Year for his novels The Professor and Between Black and White, the latter of which was also a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year.
Don’t miss this opportunity to ask questions about this latest release—or any of the author’s other published titles. Bailey’s prior releases include award-winning titles in the four-part McMurtrie and Drake series of legal thrillers, plus two books in the ongoing Bocephus Haynes series. He joined library patrons in 2021 to discuss his inspirational book, The Golfer’s Carol, and is back by popular demand. Find more information at www.robertbaileybooks.com.

September Crime Reads Book Club: On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming
2023-09-16 15:30 - 16:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing On Her Majesty’s Secret Service by Ian Fleming.
A Lancia Spyder with its hood down tore past him, cut in cheekily across his bonnet and pulled away, the sexy boom of its twin exhausts echoing back at him. It was a girl driving, a girl with a shocking pink scarf tied round her hair. And if there was one thing that set James Bond really moving, it was being passed at speed by a pretty girl.
When Bond rescues a beautiful, reckless girl from self-destruction, he finds himself with a lead on one of the most dangerous men in the world—Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. In the snow-bound fastness of his Alpine base, Blofeld is conducting research that could threaten the safety of the world. To thwart the evil genius, Bond must get himself and the vital information he has gathered out of the base and keep away from SPECTRE’s agents.
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist, and commander in the royal Navy during the Second World War. He was a grandson of the Scottish financier Robert Fleming, who founded the Scottish American Investment Trust and the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co.
Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling his adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories. Additionally, Fleming wrote the children’s story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two non-fiction books.

Closed Staff Enrichment day
2023-09-15 | TN
The Library will be closed for Staff Enrichment day.

Tween/Teen Art: Window Leaf Decal and Rock Art
2023-09-14 16:00 - 17:00 | TN
Leaves are changing and Fall is here! Join us for our monthly craft for teens and tweens as we make window decals and painted rock art with leaves and dried flowers. These make great decorations for your room, school locker, and more!

Kids STEM Experiments: Smelly Science
2023-09-13 16:00 - 17:00 | TN
Join us for STEM experiments using everyday household items. This month we’ll be doing “smelly science” experiments. Make marshmallow slime, enjoy essential oils in making sensory bottles, predict jelly bean flavors with and without various senses, and explore more science concepts as we build and engage our critical thinking skills. Ages 7 to 11.

Kids Minecraft
2023-09-11 16:00 - 17:00 | 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.

Tween/Teen Minecraft
2023-09-07 16:00 - 17:00 | 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 12-18
