Origami Workshop: Bunny Bookmarks & Spring Tulips

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

Join us for a free early Spring afternoon of learning the art of folding origami bunny bookmarks and Spring tulips! We will make the cutest little bunny corner bookmarks to use for Spring reading. Make extras for Easter baskets! Additionally, we will learn to fold origami tulips.

Sign Language for Babies & Toddlers

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 […]

Paws to Read with Therapy Dog

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 […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: A Quiet Life by Ethan Joetta

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

From the author of A Little Hope —a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick—comes another “heartwarming, character-driven” ( Booklist ) life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in […]

Collegedale Family BINGO Night

West Room City Hall 4910 Swinyar Dr, Collegedale, TN

BINGO will play in rounds and is open to all ages! We will play for one hour and winners for each round will win small prizes. No entry fee. The library will provide the Bingo playing cards and plastic chips. We hope to see you there.

Adult Craft: Spring Harvest Baskets

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

We will be assembling and painting wooden berry/fruit baskets for this month’s Adult Craft project. We will also use modge podge to add pretty details onto the baskets to create the effect of hand-painting. Spring starts the fruit harvesting season and these cute little baskets are pretty for displaying fruits/berries, vegetables, candies, etc. as a […]

Paws to Read with Therapy Dog

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 […]

Crime Reads Book Club: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

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

Agatha Christie's debut novel was also the first to feature Hercule Poirot, her famously eccentric Belgian detective. A refugee of the Great War, Poirot has settled in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious […]

Fiction Addiction Book Club: The Book of Lost Name

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

Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article discusses the looting […]