Thursday, Nov. 20

The Midcoast Audubon Society presents Nick Record on "40 Years of Change in the Gulf of Maine Ecosystem," 7 p.m. at the Camden Public Library. Record, a Maine native working at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, defines himself as a "computational ocean ecologist."

Saturday, Nov. 22

Simply Books club, 2 p.m. at the Camden Public Library, designed for book lovers. Bring along whatever book you're currently reading and share it with the group.

Tuesday, Nov. 25

"Leer y charlar" Spanish book club at the Camden Public Library, 1 p.m., open to all those proficient in Spanish.

"Tech Tuesday" at the Camden Public Library, 3 p.m., with staff wizard Olga Zimmerman. This month's topic will be "Facebook 102: Privacy Settings."

"Song Circle" 6:30 p.m. at the Camden Public Library in the second floor meeting room. Bring a song or two and a friend or two for some live music in song-circle format.

Film showing and discussion on "Why Beauty Matters" by Roger Scruton, hosted by the Camden Philosophical Society, 7 p.m. at the Camden Public Library.

Saturday, Nov. 29

Smithsonian geographer and photographer Wilfred E. Richard will give a slide talk at the Camden Public Library at 2 p.m. on "Maine to Greenland: Exploring the Maritime Far Northeast," based on the Smithsonian Institute book.

Richard recently returned from the Arctic Circle Conference, in Reykjavik, Iceland, and will speak about how today's green technology, climate change, political emergence of Native people, and the opening of the Arctic Ocean have transformed the Maritime Far Northeast from an icy frontier into a global resource zone and an increasingly integrated international crossroads.

Tuesday, Dec. 2

Susie O'Keeffe will present "The Art of Reciprocity: Exchange of Wild Affection," a multi-media slide talk based on her experiences in the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska, at 7 p.m. at the Camden Public Library. O'Keeffe is a Research Associate at the College of the Atlantic. Through poetry, prose, images and music, O'Keeffe tells the story of a month-long contemplative inquiry in Alaska.

Thursday, Dec. 4

The Writers' Group of the Coastal Senior College will give a reading of their latest creations at 1 p.m., at the Camden Public Library. The public is invited to come enjoy the reading.

Author Frank O. Smith will give a reading from his latest novel, Dream Singer, at the Camden Public Library on December 4, at 7 p.m. Dream Singer was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize, created by best-selling novelist Barbara Kingsolver, "in support of a literature of social change."

Smith, who teaches writing at the Maine College of Art, will also share the five critical elements of successful storycraft.