Kelly designs a challenge each year to help you expand your reading horizons, and this year she has a bingo card! Complete a line in any direction to be entered into a drawing for an Amazon gift card. Follow the link to register for the challenge on Beanstack: https://collegedalepubliclibrary.beanstack.com/reader365 **This challenge will continue throughout the […]
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.
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!
BINGO 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 […]
Don't forget to sign-up for the September Reading Challenge. It’s back to school time! Let’s start the school year right by setting goals, getting organized, and, of course, reading! Pick a theme and complete five reading challenges to win a new badge as well as a collectible button and sweet treat. If you complete the […]
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.
Learn Libby with OverDrive experts! Offering monthly sessions so you can choose a date and time that works for you. This session will stream a webinar on Libby basics to get you set up and teach you the basics. A staff member will be on hand to assist with questions.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!
In recognition of "National Good Neighbor Day" (September 28, 2023) we invite the community to come by and decorate the sidewalks and parking lot with positive messages and drawings to encourage our neighbors on this community-driven day. Please join us outside the library's glass entrance doors to gather your chalk and get started on this […]