Announcements

Announcing the 3rd Annual Becker Library Pumpkin Decorating Contest

Join us for some Halloween fun! Becker Library is hosting its second annual Pumpkin Decorating Contest from Oct. 24-27 in the library atrium. Anyone may enter. Simply bring your decorated pumpkin to the library during regular hours on Oct. 24. The top two carved, painted or otherwise decorated pumpkins will win a prize. Staff and patrons may vote in  [Read more]

Announcements

Announcing the 2nd Annual Becker Library Pumpkin Decorating Contest

Join us for some Halloween fun! Becker Library is hosting its second annual Pumpkin Decorating Contest from October 24-28 in the library atrium.  Anyone may enter. Simply bring your decorated pumpkin to the library during regular hours on October 24. The top two carved, painted or otherwise decorated pumpkins will win a prize. Staff and patrons may vote in the  [Read more]

Mastering Information

Trick-or-Treat Safety: The Evidence

In 1982, after seven people in Chicago died of Tylenol that had been tampered with cyanide; my neighbors stopped handing out homemade candy apples and popcorn balls and went to all store-bought, prepackaged candy. This has always seemed an odd response to me since the Tylenol that had been tampered with had been purchased that  [Read more]