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Title

  • Whenever possible, use titles and descriptions from past events in the web calendar.
  • Do not use special characters (& ` ~ @) in titles.

Naming Events

Make your titles clear. Make it obvious what will happen at the event.

Add Context

  • ✅ Art Group: Watercolor Painting
  • ❌ Art Group

Convey What Happens

  • ✅ Make a Turkey Noisemaker
  • ❌ Turkey Noisemakers

Book Sale Denotes Location

  • ✅ Hadley Park Book Sale
  • ❌ Fall Book Sale

Loosely-defined Activities

  • ✅ Teen Time
  • ❌ Teen Hangout
  • ❌ Teen Mess Around

Avoid Acronyms

  • ✅ GED for English Language
  • ✅ English Conversation Club
  • ❌ GED for EL by TCAT

Cutesy misspellings

  • ❌ Kraft Korner
  • ❌ Krayon Kids
  • ❌ Game Daze

Capital Letters

  • ✅ Mindfulness Meditation
  • ❌Come for FREE meditation sessions!

Children

Use these standard titles for all children's series. Any other special programs that are not in the age ranges below keep the original names.

Program (Age) Title
Infants (0-1) Wee Wigglers: Infant Story Time
Babies (0-2) Babies & Books
Toddlers (1-3) Toddler Tales
Preschool (3-5) Preschool Story Time
Multi Age (0-5) Family Story Time
School Age (K-4) Adventure Club
STEAM programs Library Lab: A STEAM Program
Music and Movement Music & Movement
Evening/bedtime Storytime Starry Night Story Time
Book Club Kid’s Book Club
Family Lego Family LEGO Fun
School Age Lego LEGO Club
Craft programs Creation Station
Homeschool Homeschool Friends
Tween add “with Tweens” to above
Wishing Chair Weekly Story Time Wishing Chair Productions Story Time

Online

Add "(Online)" to the end of your title.

Saturday Book Club (Online)

Off-Site Events

If an event is held off-site, denote it in the title. If you need to shorten an event title to add a location, then do so.

  • ✅ Crayon Kids at Bellevue Community Center
  • ✅ Books and Brews at Black Abbey Brewing Company
  • ✅ String City at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Titles for Theme Events

If a story time (or other regularly recurring event) will have an “in-house” special theme (i.e., not an outside special guest or performer), e.g., for Artober or Father’s Day, always include the regular recurring event name. Append special theme name to regular event name, following a colon.

  • ✅ Preschool Story Time: Father’s Day
  • ✅ Family Story Time: Spooky Tales
  • ✅ Family Story Time: Springtime
  • ✅ Preschool Story Time: Special Artober Crafts
  • ✅ Teen Time: Make a Valentine’s Day Card
  • ❌ Mother’s Day

Story Times with Special Performers

Story times with special performers do NOT include the story time title, to ensure consistency across locations for searching and scanning, and so that we don’t bury the lead.

  • ✅ The Hermitage presents I Spy the Past
  • ❌ Adventure Club: The Hermitage presents I Spy the Past
  • ✅ Nashville Ballet presents Ferdinand the Bull
  • ❌ Preschool Story Time: Nashville Ballet presents Ferdinand the Bull

READing Paws

Use this capital spelling and title for all READing Paws programs.

By Appointment Only

We’ve consolidated the listing for the One-on-One Tech Help events with all branches. There is one link to sign up for appointments there. We do not add these as individual events to the calendar.