Medicare 101: Understanding Your Options
2025-06-03 17:30 - 18:30, 2025-06-25 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | East Room City Hall
Join us for Medicare 101: Understanding Your Options Before Enrollment! This informative session is lead by Mr. Tim Reynolds, a local Licensed Medicare Advisor who is passionate about demystifying Medicare for future enrollees or those enrolled who are curious about any upcoming updates or changes to Medicare policy and procedure. This session and his services are free of charge to our library community and everyone is welcome, no library card requirement for attendance. Bring your questions and get clear answers!

Sign Language Basics for Babies and Toddlers
2025-06-05 14:30 - 15:00 | East Room City Hall
Our Collegedale neighbor, student and library patron Ms. Ellie 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. Ellie for a taste of ASL communications for parents and babies/toddlers!

Origami Workshop: Frogs & Birds!
2025-06-05 17:30 - 18:30 | City Hall​, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37315, United States
Join local Math teacher and origami artist Ms. Shirley for some Summer fun and paper crafting. We will learn to fold colorful and crafty birds and frogs for our 2025 Summer Reading theme “Color Our World.”. This program is open to anyone in the community, free and no library card requirement.

Chess Club
2025-06-08 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-07-06 14:00 - 15:00 | East Room City Hall
Join us for an hour of strategy and fun! Whether you’re new to chess or an experienced player, the Library Chess Club welcomes everyone ages 6 and up to learn, play, and challenge each other. Note: We have limited boards, please bring your own if possible!

Dungeons and Dragons Club
2025-06-10 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-06-24 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-07-08 17:30 - 19:30, 2025-07-22 17:30 - 19:30 | TN
Join us this month to play D&D in the library pop-up!
Ages 11+, Limited Availability

One-on-One with a Financial Advisor
2025-06-11 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-07-02 17:00 - 19:00 | East Room City Hall
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. Open to the community – no library card requirement. *No products will be sold*
Pre-register today to reserve a spot!

Yoga for Mind & Body
2025-06-12 17:30 - 18:30 | East Room City Hall
Local community member and Certified Yoga Instructor Cyndi Allen will be leading us through a beginner yoga for mind and body class focused on relaxation. We will read a mindfulness passage together and then she will lead us in this restorative activity. Bring your own mat (or a beach towel!) and meet in the East Room of Collegedale City Hall.
Free session is open to adults and teens – no library card membership is required.

Fiction Addiction Book Club: James by Percival Everett
2025-06-17 16:30 - 17:30 | East Room City Hall
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim’s agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.
PERCIVAL EVERETT is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent books include Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award), The Trees (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, was released in 2023. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.

Adult Craft: Diamond Painting Canvas Art
2025-06-17 18:00 - 19:00 | East Room City Hall
“Create your own stunning Diamond Art masterpiece with ease, one sparkling rhinestone at a time! No artistic skills needed. Unwind and enjoy the meditative process as you paint with diamonds.” Each participant will receive a beautiful, colorful mountain canvas scene that is 12” x 16” to work on in the crafting session. Everyone will keep their canvas and tools and take home to complete and frame.
This activity is open to participants 17+ years, first come, first served. All supplies provided – no library card requirement.

Crime Reads Book Club: Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
2025-06-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Greenbrier Cove Club House, 9555 Leyland Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363, United States
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera.
What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn’t matter?
After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It’s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can’t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.
But now the phenomenally huge hit true crime podcast “Listen for the Lie,” and its too-good looking host Ben Owens, have decided to investigate Savvy’s murder for the show’s second season. Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend’s murder, even if she is the one that did it.
The truth is out there, if we just listen.
Amy Tintera started writing novels as a kid during her middle school science classes, which probably explains why she has always been very bad at science. She is now the author of several novels for young adults, including Reboot, a Kids Indie Next pick and YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, the Ruined series, The Q, and All These Monsters, a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection.
She has degrees in journalism and film, and worked as a talent agency assistant in Hollywood before becoming an author. Raised in Austin, Texas, she frequently sets her novels in the Lone Star state, but she now lives in Los Angeles, where there’s far less humidity, but not nearly enough Tex-Mex.
Listen for the Lie, her first novel for adults, published March 5, 2024 by Celadon/Macmillan.
This program is open to any community members, no library card membership required!

Family Craft: D.I.Y. Bracelet Bar
2025-06-24 16:00 - 17:00 | East Room City Hall
Join us for a colorful bracelet-making bar as we “Color Our World” with a custom bracelet to keep. Mix and match all the colors and beads for your own unique designs and patterns. We hope to see you at the bracelet bar! This activity is open to participants of all ages, first come, first served. All supplies provided – no library card requirement.

Creature Features: Porcupine
2025-06-30 16:30 - 17:00 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
*MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE*
Come meet a porcupine for an up-close animal encounter!

Family Craft: Annual Donut Painting Activity
2025-07-01 16:00 - 17:00 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
Join us for our annual Donut Painting event that we continue bringing back every Summer! This year we’ve combined the program into an all ages, family activity. Participants will receive a donut and art paper to paint their own interpretation of this delicious, sweet pastry. Donuts are donated each Summer by our local favorite Tasty Donuts in Cambridge Square. This year we will be giving the completed works of art to the donut shop to display on their walls!
This activity is open to participants of all ages, first come, first served. All supplies provided – no library card requirement.

Closed for Collegedale's Annual Freedom Festival
2025-07-03 | Library, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, 37363, United States
Katie Lamb Public Library will be closed July 3 in observance of the Collegedale Freedom Festival and July 4 in observance of the holiday.
We hope that everyone has a safe and joyous holiday!

Closed for Independence Holiday
2025-07-04 | Library, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, 37363, United States

Creature Features: Patagonian Cavy
2025-07-07 14:00 - 14:30 | West Room City Hall, 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363
*MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE*
Come meet a Patagonian Cavy – up close and personal! One of our favorites, Creature Features of Tennessee will be visiting us in the West Room of the Collegedale City Hall Building for a real life animal encounter.
Each person in your family will need a reserved spot in order to attend.

Medicare 101: Understanding Your Options
2025-07-09 17:30 - 18:30 | East Room City Hall
Join us for Medicare 101: Understanding Your Options Before Enrollment! This informative session is led by Mr. Tim Reynolds, a local Licensed Medicare Advisor who is passionate about demystifying Medicare for future enrollees or those enrolled who are curious about any upcoming updates or changes to Medicare policy and procedure. This session and his services are free of charge to our library community and everyone is welcome, no library card requirement for attendance. Bring your questions and get clear answers!

Sign Language Basics for Babies and Toddlers
2025-07-10 14:30 - 15:00 | East Room City Hall
Join us for our Collegedale neighbor, student and library patron Ms. Ellie’s last ASL for Baby/Toddler session. We wish her well as she begins her college journey in August. She will be here one final time 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. Ellie for a taste of ASL communications for parents and babies/toddlers!
This activity is open to anyone in the community – no library card requirement!

Virtual Author Visit: Sarah Dessen
2025-07-10 17:00 - 18:00 | East Room City Hall
Join us at the library as we are visited virtually by New York Times bestselling author, Sarah Dessen. She will be calling into the library via Zoom. There is limited space for this event. Please register via the button below.
Sarah Dessen is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen novels for teens, including The Truth About Forever, Just Listen and This Lullaby. Her work has been published in over thirty countries and sold millions of copies worldwide. She is the recipient of the 2017 Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association for outstanding contribution to young adult literature. Her latest novel, The Rest of The Story, is now available in paperback.

Origami Workshop: Rainbow Fish
2025-07-15 14:00 - 15:00 | East Room City Hall
Join local Math teacher and origami artist Ms. Shirley for some Summer fun and paper crafting. We will learn to fold colorful and crafty rainbow fish for our 2025 Summer Reading theme “Color Our World.” This program is open to anyone in the community, free with no library card membership requirement.

Fiction Addiction Book Club: The Cliffs
2025-07-15 16:30 - 17:30 | East Room City Hall
A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New York Times best-selling author of Friends and Strangers.
On a secluded bluff overlooking the ocean sits a Victorian house, lavender with gingerbread trim, a home that contains a century’s worth of secrets. By the time Jane Flanagan discovers the house as a teenager, it has long been abandoned. The place is an irresistible mystery to Jane. There are still clothes in the closets, marbles rolling across the floors, and dishes in the cupboards, even though no one has set foot there in decades. The house becomes a hideaway for Jane, a place to escape her volatile mother.
Twenty years later, now a Harvard archivist, she returns home to Maine following a terrible mistake that threatens both her career and her marriage. Jane is horrified to find the Victorian is now barely recognizable. The new owner, Genevieve, a summer person from Beacon Hill, has gutted it, transforming the house into a glossy white monstrosity straight out of a shelter magazine. Strangely, Genevieve is convinced that the house is haunted—perhaps the product of something troubling Genevieve herself has done. She hires Jane to research the history of the place and the women who lived there. The story Jane uncovers—of lovers lost at sea, romantic longing, shattering loss, artistic awakening, historical artifacts stolen and sold, and the long shadow of colonialism—is even older than Maine itself.
Enthralling, richly imagined, filled with psychic mediums and charlatans, spirits and past lives, mothers, marriage, and the legacy of alcoholism, this is a deeply moving novel about the land we inhabit, the women who came before us, and the ways in which none of us will ever truly leave this earth.
J. Courtney Sullivan is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels Commencement, Maine, The Engagements, Saints for All Occasions, and Friends and Strangers. Her work has been translated into seventeen languages. Sullivan’s writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, New York, Real Simple, and O: The Magazine, among many other publications. In 2017, she wrote the forewords to new editions of two of her favorite classic novels–Anne of Green Gables and Little Women. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two children.

Crime Reads Book Club: We Solve Murders
2025-07-19 15:00 - 16:00 | Greenbrier Cove Club House, 9555 Leyland Dr, Collegedale, TN, 37363, United States
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing We Solve Murders by Richard Osman.
A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve…
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now.
Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. As a private security officer, she doesn’t stay still long enough for habits or routines. She’s currently on a remote island keeping world-famous author Rosie D’Antonio alive. Which was meant to be an easy job…
Then a dead body, a bag of money, and a killer with their sights on Amy have her sending an SOS to the only person she trusts. A breakneck race around the world begins, but can Amy and Steve stay one step ahead of a lethal enemy?
Richard Osman is an English television presenter, producer, director, and novelist.
This program is open to any community members, no library card membership required!

Medicare 101: Understanding Your Options
2025-07-29 17:30 - 18:30 | Library, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, 37363, United States

Adult & Teens Craft: Watercolor Painting Class - Bookmarks
2025-07-31 17:30 - 19:00 | East Room City Hall
Local artist Jennifer Kring (https://jennifer94496.wixsite.com/jenniferkring) will be here to teach us how to paint with watercolors and we will use watercolor paper to create beautiful galaxy bookmarks. Bookmarks will include some pen and ink details. Participants will complete several bookmarks to keep or even to gift to fellow readers.
This program is designed for watercolor beginners and is open to community participants ages 13 to adult, first come, first served. All supplies provided – no library card requirement.
We will meet in Chestnut Hall (the early building) for this activity.
