Read, Move, and Groove
2025-11-17 10:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | TN
Join volunteers from The Little Gym of Chattanooga for a fantastic fusion of literature and lively motion, tailored for children aged 5 and under. As your child dives into mesmerizing tales, they’re also introduced to a symphony of movements, from twirls to tumbles, making each story an active adventure.

A Slice of Security: Medicare 101 and Pizza Night
2025-11-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Confused about Medicare? You’re not alone! Join us at the library for a relaxed and informative evening where local experts will break down the basics of Medicare, explain your enrollment options, and answer your questions — all while you enjoy a free dinner of hot and fresh pizza!
Whether you’re turning 65 soon, helping a loved one navigate their coverage, or of any age and just want to better understand your healthcare options, this event will give you the clear, reliable information you need to make confident decisions.
Free and open to all!

Preschool Storytime
2025-11-18 10:30 - 11:00 | TN
Join Ms. Bailey for a fun-filled storytime featuring stories, movement, and songs about all things Orange. This program is for ages 3-5 and capped at 40 participants.

Creature Features: Wallaby
2025-11-18 16:30 - 17:00 | TN
Get ready for an exciting and unique visit from Creature Features of Tennessee, https://creaturefeaturestn.com/! Our friends at Creature Features will be bringing Calamity Jane – their adorable, seven-months-old baby wallaby. She is sure to steal our hearts and bring a smile to all of our faces.
Limited availability.

Dungeons and Dragons Club
2025-11-18 17:30 - 19:30 | East Room City Hall
Come adventure through a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Ages 11+.

November Cookbook Club: Appetizers!
2025-11-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
You are invited to join us as we revive our Recipe Swap & Dinner during March at the Katie Lamb Public Library in Collegedale. It is football and the holiday season so let’s embrace a special Appetizers Theme this month! Select a cookbook (either from our library or from your own personal collection) and prepare a new or a family favorite appetizer – it could be savory or sweet. We can all try out an assortment of appetizers and compile some new ideas for our own family, holiday and sport-watching gatherings! Bring a copy of the recipe directions to share with everyone. Since we are This program has always been a great time for participants to eat, fellowship, mix and mingle over new dishes. Open to all adults, teens and families who enjoy cooking or baking or would just like to join in on the fun!
As featured this year in the Chattanooga Times Free Press: https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/apr/01/chattanooga-area-cookbook-clubs-combine-interests/

Baby and Toddler Storytime
2025-11-19 10:30 - 11:00 | TN
Join Ms. Bailey for a fun-filled storytime featuring stories, movement, and songs about all things Orange. This program is for ages 0-3 and capped at 40 participants.

LEGO Robotics
2025-11-20 16:30 - 17:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Using LEGO Prime kits, participants will design, build, and program robots to explore mechanics, sensors, and coding. Join us for an hour of creativity, coding, and discovery! Limited availability

Romantasy Book Club
2025-11-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Do you love Romance and Fantasy books and want a place to meet and discuss your favorite books? Romantasy book club is perfect for you! This month, we will discuss Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer while having light refreshments. The library will have copies available to check out.

Chess Club
2025-11-23 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Sharpen your strategic skills at Chess Club! Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned player, this session helps develop logical reasoning, pattern recognition, and strategic planning. Chess-themed books and guides will be available for newcomers, and friendly matches will help build skills and confidence. The library has limited boards, please bring your own if possible!

Technology Help Appointments
2025-11-24 14:00 - 17:00 | Library, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, 37363, United States
Need tech help? The library is here for you! We can assist with basic technology questions like using your phone, apps, or email. We cannot help with anything pertaining to personal information. Please have your login information ready at your appointment. Call us or visit our website to book a one-hour appointment!

Playtime
2025-11-25 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-26 10:30 - 11:00 | TN
This program is free play with a variety of toys. Children can explore the toys and activities alongside their peers while learning new skills. Ages 0-5 and capped at 40 participants.

Fiction Addiction Book Club: The Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
2025-11-25 16:30 - 17:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
From internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier, a riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier.
1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck – in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows the seeds of a long battle. James loves the apples, reminders of an easier life back in Connecticut; while Sadie prefers the applejack they make, an alcoholic refuge from brutal frontier life.
1853: Their youngest child Robert is wandering through Gold Rush California. Restless and haunted by the broken family he left behind, he has made his way alone across the country. In the redwood and giant sequoia groves he finds some solace, collecting seeds for a naturalist who sells plants from the new world to the gardeners of England. But you can run only so far, even in America, and when Robert’s past makes an unexpected appearance he must decide whether to strike out again or stake his own claim to a home at last.
Chevalier tells a fierce, beautifully crafted story in At the Edge of the Orchard, her most graceful and richly imagined work yet.
Tracy Chevalier is an American-born, now dual-citizen, author famous for historical fiction, most notably Girl with a Pearl Earring. Born in 1962 in Washington, D.C., she earned degrees in English and Creative Writing and moved to England in the 1980s, where she still lives with her husband. Her books often draw inspiration from paintings, historical events, and specific crafts or trades, exploring hidden human stories within different contexts.

Adult Craft: Thanksgiving Turkey Placecards
2025-11-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
It’s that time of year again to “Gobble ‘til you wobble!” We are making fun and creative turkey place cards to help set your holiday table! Have out of town guests this week? Bring them along for a little crafting break at the library. This program is open to participants aged 17+. This library-funded craft is provided at no cost to you, limited supplies.

Book Besties
2025-12-01 16:45 - 17:45 | TN
This program is a book club for ages 7-13! We discuss any of the books we have read in the last month, eat snacks, and then play a game or create a craft.

Preschool Storytime
2025-12-02 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-12-09 10:30 - 11:00 | TN
Join Ms. Bailey for a fun-filled storytime featuring stories, movement, and songs about the color White. This program is for ages 3-5 and capped at 40 participants.

Dungeons and Dragons Club
2025-12-02 17:30 - 19:30 | TN

Baby and Toddler Storytime
2025-12-03 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-12-10 10:30 - 11:00 | TN
Join Ms. Bailey for a fun-filled storytime featuring stories, movement, and songs about the color White. This program is for ages 0-3 and capped at 40 participants.

POSTPONED - Beginner Yoga for Adults & Teens
2025-12-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Library, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, 37363, United States
POSTONED to Thursday, January 8th. Local community member and Certified Yoga Instructor Cyndi Allen will be leading us through a beginner yoga class focused on relaxation. We will read a passage related to self-care and then she will lead us in some beginning Cyndi currently teaches yoga around the Chattanooga area – including Chattanooga Yoga Center of Ooltewah https://thechattanoogayogacenter.com/. Bring your own mat (or a beach towel!).

LEGO Free Play
2025-12-08 16:30 - 17:30 | TN
Build anything you can think of using a pile of LEGO bricks! Completed builds will be displayed in the library. Ages 6-12

Medicare 101: Understanding Your Options
2025-12-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Library, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, 37363, United States
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! Bring your questions and get clear answers!

Gingerbread Wars
2025-12-09 17:30 - 18:30 | TN
Get ready for a deliciously fun challenge at the library! Gather your friends and put your creativity to the test in our Gingerbread Wars. Contestants will decorate amazing gingerbread men with icing and candy, and compete for prizes! Limited availability.

Fiction Addiction Book Club: A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
2025-12-16 16:30 - 17:30 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing A Red Bird Christmas by Fannie Flagg.
With the same incomparable style and warm, inviting voice that have made her beloved by millions of readers far and wide, New York Times bestselling author Fannie Flagg has written an enchanting Christmas story of faith and hope for all ages that is sure to become a classic.
Deep in the southernmost part of Alabama, along the banks of a lazy winding river, lies the sleepy little community known as Lost River, a place that time itself seems to have forgotten. After a startling diagnosis from his doctor, Oswald T. Campbell leaves behind the cold and damp of the oncoming Chicago winter to spend what he believes will be his last Christmas in the warm and welcoming town of Lost River. There he meets the postman who delivers mail by boat, the store owner who nurses a broken heart, the ladies of the Mystic Order of the Royal Polka Dots Secret Society, who do clandestine good works. And he meets a little redbird named Jack, who is at the center of this tale of a magical Christmas when something so amazing happened that those who witnessed it have never forgotten it. Once you experience the wonder, you too will never forget A Redbird Christmas.
Fannie Flagg began writing and producing television specials at age nineteen and went on to distinguish herself as an actress and writer in television, films, and the theater. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (which was produced by Universal Pictures as Fried Green Tomatoes), Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!, and Standing in the Rainbow. Flagg’s script for Fried Green Tomatoes was nominated for both the Academy and Writers Guild of America Awards and won the highly regarded Scripters Award. Flagg lives in California and in Alabama.

Crime Reads Book Club: Dachshund through the Snow by David Rosenfelt
2026-01-03 14:00 - 15:00 | Library Meeting Room, 9318 Apison Pike, Collegedale, TN, United States
This Christmas, lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, can’t say no to helping young Danny and his dachshund, Murphy.
Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his wife, Laurie, have started a new Christmas tradition. Their local pet store has a Christmas tree, where instead of ornaments there are wishes from those in need. One poignant wish leads Andy to a child named Danny, whose selfless plea strikes a chord. Danny asked Santa for a coat for his mother, a sweater for his dachshund, Murphy, and for the safe return of his missing father.
It turns out Danny’s father doesn’t want to be found, he’s on the run after just being arrested for a murder that took place fourteen years ago – a murder that Danny’s mother swears he didn’t commit.
With his trademark humor and larger-than-life characters – including a police officer and his K-9 partner, Simon – Rosenfelt never fails to deliver as Andy and his eccentric crew dash to reunite a family in time for Christmas.
David Rosenfelt, a native of Paterson, New Jersey, is a graduate of NYU. He was the former marketing president for Tri-Star Pictures before becoming a writer of novels and screenplays. “Open And Shut” was his first novel; “First Degree,” his second novel, was named a best book of 2003 by Publishers Weekly. He currently lives in Southern California with his wife and 35 dogs.
This program is open to any community members, no library card membership required!
