Camden Public Library Events May 15 through 29

Thursday, May 15

“Tick Talk” 7:00 pm at the Camden Public Library. May is Lyme Disease Awareness month, and the Library will again host Lyme disease specialist Dr. Bea Szantyr, with an informative look at ticks, the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi which causes Lyme disease, the incidence of Lyme disease in Maine, the difficulties of medical diagnosis, and steps you can take to protect yourself and your family.

Saturday, May 17

Spring Book Sale, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Camden Public Library, with gardening books, cookbooks, sailing books, DVDs and CDs, biographies, history books, how-to books, and plenty of fiction. The book sales benefit the library, and are run by library volunteers. Come support the library and pick up some book treasures!

Saturday, May 17

Pansy Planting Party, led by Dave Jackson in the Children’s Garden at the Camden Public Library, 11:00 am to noon, part of the Camden Downtown Business Group’s Business is Blooming events

Sunday, May 18

Spring Book Sale continues, 1:00 to 4:30 pm, at the Camden Public Library. All book sales benefit the library.

Tuesday, May 20

Songwriters Session, 6:00 pm in the Picker Room at the Camden Public Library, in preparation for the Coffeehouse on June 5. Call Ken Gross at the library for more information.

Thursday, May 22

“Vital Signs: A Citizen Science Initiative to Document Maine’s Biodiversity” will be presented at the Camden Public Library at 7:00 pm, led by Dee Kopesky and Hildy Ellis. Vital Signs is a program of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute that supports and encourages the gathering of data on native, non-native, and invasive species in coastal, freshwater, and upland zones in Maine

Friday, May 23

Partners in World Health presents an illustrated talk at the Camden Public Library at 2:00 pm on their work to collect medical supplies for volunteer work in Bangladesh and on their project to build the William “Chip” McLellan School. All are welcome.

Saturday, May 24

Partners in World Health presents an illustrated talk at the Camden Public Library at 2:00 pm on their work to collect medical supplies for volunteer work in Bangladesh and on their project to build the William “Chip” McLellan School. (Repeat). All are welcome.

“Simply Books” book club, 2:00 pm at the Camden Public Library. All are welcome. Simply bring along whatever book you’re currently reading and share it with the group.

Tuesday, May 27

 “Why Chomsky Matters,” a lecture by Richard Ogle, 7:00 pm at the Camden Public Library, covering a range of Noam Chomsky’s scientific and philosophical ideas, and their relevance to current intellectual debate. Sponsored by the Camden Philosophical Society. Ogle has a PhD in Linguistics and studied for a year under Chomsky at MIT.

Thursday, May 29

Workshop on Farm Design led by Jen Porter, 7:00 pm at the Camden Public Library, part of the library’s Let’s Get Growing series.