May Social Media Content For Libraries

We understand your library wants to post fun content to social media but that you might not have the time to dedicate to writing it, so we’d like to help!

Below you will find daily posts, all under Twitter’s 140 character limit (good for Facebook too), that you can copy/paste at your leisure, each linking to a Topic Page, which, for Credo Online Reference Services or Literati subscribers can be a gateway to all kinds of e-resources.

This content is free for the taking, no character-eating attribution to us necessary!

PS: The images below are all in the public domain, with attributions at the bottom of the page.

Friday	1 May	Mary had a TopicPage Its facts were true & right And every year on Mother Goose Day Its info she would cite: http://bit.ly/1Ky7u3a
Monday	4 May	May the Fourth be with you. Happy Star Wars Day! http://bit.ly/1EGH7aB
Tuesday	5 May	Happy Cinco de Mayo! A virtual margarita for anyone who knows what this holiday celebrates! http://bit.ly/1HVA0fx
Wednesday	6 May	It's National Bike Month! Also: National tuck one pant leg into your sock month! http://bit.ly/1GLcuDh
Thursday	7 May	Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation is 1 way we know the universe & how we study it are getting cooler every day http://bit.ly/1bZyuxj
Friday	8 May	Xylem not only conducts water & nutrients around a plant, it also scores a pile of points in WordsWithFriends http://bit.ly/1zhMzjM
Monday	11 May	Tales of scandal abound on the Zoë Topic Page. This Byzantine figure killed an emperor & was attacked by a Pope http://bit.ly/1AmHAcQ
Tuesday	12 May	One in a series of inevitable strategic victories of machines over humans, this day in 1997 Deep Blue beat Kasparov http://bit.ly/1zviuxq
Wednesday	13 May	One can get Spirited Away reading up on the world's preeminent animator Hayao Miyazaki http://bit.ly/1dyjQ0z
Thursday	14 May	This day in 1804, Lewis and Clark departed on one of history's greatest roadtrips: http://bit.ly/1zhMQmM
Friday	15 May	Happy National Chocolate Chip Day! http://bit.ly/1dyjSoY
Monday	18 May	The Bronze Age is easily one of our top 3 favorite ages to study http://bit.ly/1FAYmLl
Tuesday	19 May	This day in 1588 a highly flammable Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon http://bit.ly/1zvj5zj
Wednesday	20 May	The artichoke may be a small vegetable, but it's got a big heart http://bit.ly/1Ky7YXe
Thursday	21 May	Quinoa has recently come into a level of popularity it hasn't known since its days feeding the Incan Empire http://bit.ly/1GJYNlh
Friday	22 May	Party on Baker Street! Sherlock's creator celebrates a birthday today! http://bit.ly/1zMRIiC
Monday	25 May	Happy Memorial Day! http://bit.ly/1EwxfyQ
Tuesday	26 May	Selling almost too many copies to... count, Dracula went on sale this day 1897 http://bit.ly/1JEtBr6
Wednesday	27 May	Jupiter's moon, Io, has more volcanoes than a middle school science fair. http://bit.ly/1It6lLe
Thursday	28 May	Knights have been around since antiquity, although how they got anywhere moving in that L-shape we have no idea http://bit.ly/1bZAky4
Friday	29 May	Happy Birthday JFK! (The president, not the airport) http://bit.ly/1It6vC8

Image:

Penny-Farthing Bicycle Rider.png, By Unknown artist [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Penny-Farthing_Bicycle_Rider.png

Lewis and Clark, side by side.jpg, Charles Willson Peale [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_and_Clark,_side_by_side.jpg

Chocolate chip cookies (2).jpg, By Anna Langova [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chocolate_chip_cookies_(2).jpg

Artichokes.jpg, Public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artichokes.jpg