Katie Lamb Public Library

Community Craft Swap
2024-07-23 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

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!

Baby and Toddler Storytime
2024-07-24 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-08-19 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-08-21 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.*

Preschool Storytime
2024-07-25 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-08-20 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-08-22 10:30 - 11:00 | 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.*

Teens Paint Donuts
2024-07-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Come together and create your own fun donut painting for our donut collage! Donuts will be provided to go along for the theme.

Tennessee Aquarium: Shaping our Oceans
2024-07-29 10:30 - 11:30 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
The Tennessee Aquarium’s outreach will be presenting “Shaping Our Oceans” for school age children. Pre-registration is required for each child.
Registration will open July 1st.
This event will take place at City Hall West Room.

Kids Lego Club
2024-07-29 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-08-26 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+

Playtime
2024-07-30 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-07-31 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-08-01 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-08-26 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-08-27 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-08-28 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-08-29 10:30 - 11:00 | TN
Join us for playtime! All children age 0-5.

Murder Mystery Date Night in conjunction with FOL and CP&R Dept.
2024-07-30 18:00 - 19:00 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
This activity is designed to be a fun night out for parents, grandparents, singles, girlfriends, etc.! For the adults there will be an interactive murder mystery activity where everyone will play a role – whether big or small. Tonight’s activity is a Murder at a Luau Mystery. Guests will enjoy pizza dinner and then work together to solve the mystery! Participants are encouraged to dress for a luau but it is not a requirement to participate. While the adults enjoy their time in the City Hall West Room – their children, grandchildren, etc will enjoy watching a tropical kids movie, crafts and pizza with our Children’s Librarian, Ms. Bailey. The kiddos will be located in the adjoining East Room – so not too far away and enough room to enjoy a fun, adults night out while they enjoy a kids night out!
This event will cost $5 per adult and registration will be located on the Collegedale Parks and Recreation Website. Registration is not yet open.

ASL for Adults and Teens
2024-07-31 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!

End of Summer Reading Party
2024-08-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Collegedale Commons, 4910 Swinyar Dr., Collegedale, TN, 37315, United States
Join us for this years Summer Reading Wrap-up Party! We are so excited to celebrate a Summer of reading fun for all ages. It’s amazing how quickly time is flying this Summer and you do not want to miss out on the end of Summer fun.

Raffle prizes will be drawn at this time as well – but you are not required to be present to claim your prize. We will contact any winners not present to arrange for pick-up.

We will have crafts, games, sparkle tattoos, an obstacle course and the always popular petting zoo! We hope to see you there.

Family Event: Collegedale Cupcake Wars!
2024-08-20 18:00 - 19:00 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
*THIS EVENT IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED FOR THE FIRST 50 PEOPLE.*

Join us for an August family fun night of our 2nd Annual Collegedale Cupcake Wars! Participants will decorate one cupcake and choose their theme. Supplies and decorating materials will be provided. There will be four grand prizes awarded for the following categories: Best of Show (best overall cupcake), Most Creative (with use of supplies/toppings provided), Best Literary Theme (for any cupcakes using a book or book character theme), The People’s Choice Award (voted on by the participants).

Fiction Addiction Book Club: The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard
2024-08-21 16:00 - 17:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard.
In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los Alamos, comes a riveting novel of the everyday women who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. “What you see here, what you hear here, what you do here, let it stay here.”
In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn’t officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has sprung up in a matter of months—a town of trailers and segregated houses, 24-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained. They know they are helping to win the war, but must ask no questions and reveal nothing to outsiders.
The girls spend their evenings socializing and flirting with soldiers, scientists, and workmen at dances and movies, bowling alleys and canteens. June longs to know more about their top-secret assignment and begins an affair with Sam Cantor, the young Jewish physicist from New York who oversees the lab where she works and understands the end goal only too well, while her beautiful roommate Cici is on her own mission: to find a wealthy husband and escape her sharecropper roots. Across town, African-American construction worker Joe Brewer knows nothing of the government’s plans, only that his new job pays enough to make it worth leaving his family behind, at least for now. But a breach in security will intertwine his fate with June’s search for answers.
When the bombing of Hiroshima brings the truth about Oak Ridge into devastating focus, June must confront her ideals about loyalty, patriotism, and war itself.
Born and raised in East Tennessee, Janet Beard moved to New York to study screenwriting at NYU and went on to earn an MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her first novel, Beneath the Pines, was published in 2008, and her follow-up, The Atomic City Girls became an international bestseller in 2018. Janet’s latest novel The Ballad of Laurel Springs was published in October 2021. Janet has lived and worked in Australia, England, Boston, and Columbus, Ohio, where she is currently raising a daughter, and working on a new novel.

Crime Reads Book Club: Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
2024-08-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter. ~ Good Reads Choice Award: Nominee for Best Thriller & Mystery (2015)
Twenty years ago Claire Scott’s eldest sister, Julia, went missing. No one knew where she went – no note, no body. It was a mystery that was never solved and it tore her family apart. Now another girl has disappeared, with chilling echoes of the past. And it seems that she might not be the only one. Claire is convinced Julia’s disappearance is linked. But when she begins to learn the truth about her sister, she is confronted with a shocking discovery, and nothing will ever be the same…
Karin Slaughter is the author of more than twenty instant NEW YORK TIMES bestselling novels, including the Edgar–nominated COP TOWN and standalone novels THE GOOD DAUGHTER, PRETTY GIRLS, and GIRL, FORGOTTEN. She is published in 120 countries with more than 40 million copies sold across the globe. PIECES OF HER is a #1 Netflix original series starring Toni Collette. The Will Trent Series is on ABC (and streaming on Hulu in the U.S and Disney+ internationally). THE GOOD DAUGHTER and FALSE WITNESS are in development for film/tv. Slaughter is the founder of the Save the Libraries project—a nonprofit organization established to support libraries and library programming. A native of Georgia, she lives in Atlanta.

Paws to Read with Therapy Dog
2024-08-27 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.

Adult Craft: Intro to Paper Quilling
2024-08-27 17:30 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
What is paper quilling? It is a form of art that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped and glued together to create decorative designs. The paper shape is manipulated to create designs or to decorate other materials – such as greeting cards, pictures, boxes, jewelry, etc. Local instructor Sandy will be on hand to teach all of us the art of paper quilling this month!
Open to anyone in the community 17+ years of age – no library card requirement.

Origami Workshop: Pencil Cup Holder
2024-08-29 17:30 - 18:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Join Ms. Shirley for some Back-to-School paper folding fun where we will make a cool pencil cup holder for our pens and pencils plus a mini notebook.

Happy Labor Day!
2024-09-02 | TN
The Collegedale Public Library will be closed Monday, September 2, 2024 in observance of the state holiday. We look forward to seeing you again Tuesday, September 3rd.

Preschool Storytime
2024-09-03 10:30 - 11:00 | 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.*
Theme: Book Characters
Week 1: Pete the Cat
Week 2: Very Hungry Caterpillar
Week 3: Elephant and Piggie
Week 4: Bruce the Bear
