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.
Monday | 1 June | Celebrate Oscar the Grouch's birthday with this Refuse & Refuse Disposal Topic Page: http://bit.ly/1HYo8uV |
Tuesday | 2 June | Babe Ruth retired this day in 1935, an object lesson in just how unhealthy a life of baseball can truly be. http://bit.ly/1jCKwK0 |
Wednesday | 3 June | This day in 1956, Rock music is banned in Santa Cruz CA, much to the approval of the dad from Footloose http://bit.ly/RfWWz3 |
Thursday | 4 June | Did you hear about the subversive root vegetable movement? They stay underground but turnip from time to time http://bit.ly/1kgKG8D |
Friday | 5 June | June is National Fresh Fruit and Veggie Month, a good time to plant yourself in front of this Topic Page! http://bit.ly/1JhPgDZ |
Monday | 8 June | Get to the root of the carrot's long (and not always orange) history with this TopicPage: http://bit.ly/1JhPkUd |
Tuesday | 9 June | Corporate Identity has taken on new meaning in recent years, especially now that corporations are people: http://bit.ly/1K2TqAi |
Wednesday | 10 June | Wild Birthday Wishes to Maurice Sendak! http://bit.ly/1ADvcLl |
Thursday | 11 June | ET turns 33 today! Credo carries on the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence with this Topic Page: http://bit.ly/1FNhd4f |
Friday | 12 June | Credo's vegetarianism Topic Page is like a friendly rapper: it's got no beef. http://bit.ly/1tQk5GU |
Monday | 15 June | It's Worldwide Knit in Public day! Awesome exhibition, or is it just purls before twine? http://bit.ly/1PX9s3H |
Tuesday | 16 June | Picture Me Scrollin... through this Tupac TopicPage on what would have been his 44th birthday: http://bit.ly/1nCAIEe |
Wednesday | 17 June | The gold standard in political scandal kicked off this day in 1972 with the arrest of 5 men at the DNC HQ #watergate http://bit.ly/1KwskQc |
Thursday | 18 June | Happy International Picnic Day! Hope this Ant TopicPage is the only incarnation of these insects you see all day: http://bit.ly/1HYoCkS |
Friday | 19 June | The barons at Runnymeade had no idea the charter they signed would feature so prominiently in Jay-Z's 12th album http://bit.ly/1KwsneK |
Monday | 22 June | We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. ~ B. F. Skinner http://bit.ly/1d7PHoh |
Tuesday | 23 June | The 1st Wimbledon in 1877 was supposedly an attempt to raise money to purchase a new roller for the croquet lawns http://bit.ly/SfH4gX |
Wednesday | 24 June | Intellectual Property piracy threatens life on the high ©'s http://bit.ly/1jbVm8b |
Thursday | 25 June | You have the right to remain information literate. Miranda Rights came into being 49 years ago this month: http://bit.ly/RC5eS2 |
Friday | 26 June | Smile! The toothbrush was invented this day in 1498: http://bit.ly/1LVsK34 |
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Monday | 29 June | You don't have to navigate a labyrinth of unreliable web sources to learn about David Bowie; use this Topic Page! http://bit.ly/1mGlgWs |
Tuesday | 30 June | If Lapis Lazuli were any bluer, it would be hosting clue-based educational programming on Nickelodeon. http://bit.ly/1PX9BUE |
Images:
Carrots in Freiburg - DSC06503.jpg, By Daderot (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carrots_in_Freiburg_-_DSC06503.jpg
Taquilenos knitting.jpg, By Bcasterline (Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.) [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taquilenos_knitting.jpg
A Chronicle of England - Page 226 - John Signs the Great Charter.jpg, James William Edmund Doyle [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Chronicle_of_England_-_Page_226_-_John_Signs_the_Great_Charter.jpg
Children's Dental Health Month DVIDS368670.jpg, By Airman 1st Class Ross Whitley (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/368670) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Children%27s_Dental_Health_Month_DVIDS368670.jpg