Katie Lamb Public Library

Library Closed
2023-11-10 | TN
The Library will be closed for Veteran’s Day, Friday, November 10.

Crime Reads Book Club: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
2023-11-11 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
In every person’s story, there is something to hide…
The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquility is shattered by a woman’s terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers, who’d happened to sit at the same table, pass the time in conversation and friendships are struck. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning—it just happens that one is a murderer.
Award-winning author Sulari Gentill delivers a sharply thrilling read with The Woman in the Library, an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship and shows us that words can be the most treacherous weapons of all.
Once upon a time, Sulari Gentill was a corporate lawyer serving as a director on public boards, with only a vague disquiet that there was something else she was meant to do. That feeling did not go away until she began to write. And so Sulari became the author of the Rowland Sinclair Mysteries: thus far, ten historical crime novels chronicling the life and adventures of her 1930s Australian gentleman artist, the Hero Trilogy, based on the myths and epics of the ancient world, and the Ned Kelly Award winning Crossing the Lines (published in the US as After She Wrote Hime). In 2014 she collaborated with National Gallery of Victoria to write a short story which was produced in audio to feature in the Fashion Detective Exhibition, and thereafter published by the NGV. IN 2019 Sulari was part of a 4-member delegation of Australian crime writers sponsored by the Australia Council to tour the US as ambassadors of Australian Crime Writing.
Sulari lives with her husband, Michael, and their boys, Edmund and Atticus, on a small farm in Batlow where she grows French Black Truffles and refers to her writing as “work” so that no one will suggest she get a real job.

Baby and Toddler Storytime
2023-11-13 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-11-15 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-11-20 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-11-22 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-12-04 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.

Kids Minecraft
2023-11-13 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.

Preschool Storytime
2023-11-14 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-11-16 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-11-21 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-11-23 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-12-05 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.

Origami Workshop: Christmas Ornaments
2023-11-14 17:00 - 18:15 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us for a free evening of learning the art of folding origami Christmas tree ornaments! We will make a beautiful Christmas tree, a stocking with candy cane, teardrop Ms. Shirley and Ms. Emily will be back to teach us the necessary steps to create our own beautiful holiday ornaments.

Sign Language Basics for Babies & Toddlers
2023-11-15 14:00 - 15:30 | 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. 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, and etc? If so, join Ms. Sharon for a small taste of ASL communications!

Tween/Teen Hangout: Natural Gemstones Bracelet Making
2023-11-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us for our monthly craft for teens and tweens as we craft bracelets made from natural stones and gemstones. Tiger’s eye, rose quartz, lava rock, and more to choose from as you add charms, channel your energies, and create great wearable art!

Library Closed
2023-11-23 - 2023-11-24 | TN
The Library will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 23 and Friday, November 24.

Library closed for Thanksgiving
2023-11-23 - 2023-11-24 | TN

Playtime
2023-11-27 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-11-28 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-11-29 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-11-30 10:30 - 11:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us for playtime! All children age 0-5.

Kids Lego Club
2023-11-27 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.

Paws to Read with Therapy Dog
2023-11-28 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.

Fiction Addiction Book Club: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
2023-11-28 17:00 - 18:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
“Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose.”
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.

Paint & Sip Night (Adults and Teens)
2023-11-29 17:00 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join us as we welcome local artist Jennifer Kring (https://jennifer94496.wixsite.com/jenniferkring) who will teach us the basics of painting a winter watercolor scene at the library. We will sip sparkling grape juice, listen to holiday music and create a winter painting for you to take home. All materials will be provided and this event is capped at 18 participants so please pre-register here: https://dev.collegedalepubliclibrary.org/event/paint-n-sip-night-adults-teens/?preview=true

Lego Robotics for Kids/Tween/Teen
2023-11-30 16:00 - 17:00 | 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!

Library closed for Christmas in Collegedale
2023-12-03 | TN
The Library will be closed on Sunday, December 3 for Christmas in Collegedale. Join us for this fun event at the Commons from 3PM to 7PM featuring Santa, food, activities and the tree lighting.

Long Term Forum
2023-12-05 11:00 - 14:00 | City Hall​, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37315, United States
Join the library with Thrivent Financial for a Long Term Care Forum to provide essential information to members of our community on planning for the future including the financial and healthcare aspects of aging. This forum will serve as a “one-stop-shop” to gather info from representatives in the areas of Medicare, nursing, mobility, legal and financial. Location is West Room of City Hall Bldg.

The Great Cookie War
2023-12-05 17:30 - 18:30 | City Hall​, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37315, United States
Our first cookie decorating contest! So bring out the judges and grab the icing and sprinkles for an all out war! Cookies & decorating supplies provided by the Library. Participants will each receive a blank cookie and have a 20-minute timed window to decorate their cookie according to several set themes of their choosing. Members of our Friends of the Library will serve as voluntary judges of the night. This competition is open to all ages!
