Staff Development Day

The Collegedale Public Library will be CLOSED Friday, September 13, 2024 for our annual Staff Development Day. We will resume normal operating hours Saturday, September 14, 2024.

Local Author Visit: Tyler Boyd’s The Biggs Machine

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Join the Friends of the Collegedale Public Library as they host local author Tyler Boyd who will discuss his book - The Biggs Machine - Historical/Non-Fiction. Open to everyone - no library card requirement. For the first half of the 20th Century in Polk County, Tennessee, Sheriff Burch Biggs reigned supreme. From 1904 to 1948, […]

Origami Workshop: Autumn Leaves Garland!

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Join local Math teacher and origami artist Ms. Shirley for some early Fall fun. We will learn to fold various styles of autumn leaves in this month's origami workshop. We will provide twine to string these up to make a festive fall garland to hang in your home! This would be a great activity for […]

September Fiction Addiction Book Club: The Frozen River by Arial Lawhon

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing The Frozen River by Arial Lawhon - open to anyone, no library card requirement. A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River […]

September Crime Reads Book Club: Practice to Deceive by Ann Rule

Library Meeting Room 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States

Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Practice to Deceive by Ann Rule. Open to anyone - no library card requirement. In Practice to Deceive, Rule's first book-length investigative chronicle since In the Still of the Night, Rule unravels a shattering case of Christmastime murder off the coast of Washington State. presented with the clarity, […]