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.
3 April It's National Poetry Month! Immerse yourself in verse with this Topic Page: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/poetry |
4 April "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." ~ Happy Birthday Maya Angelou http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/angelou_maya_1928 |
5 April Artificial Intelligence is all over the news as many futurists weigh in on how AI will impact employment http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/artificial_intelligence |
6 April If your researching is getting bogged down, Topic Pages are a great resource for clear and concise background info: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/bog |
7 April They might not be much to look at, but Black Holes are literally the most attractive thing in the universe: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/black_hole |
10 April The US patent system was established this day, 1790, and has many controversies to this day. Read more here: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/patent |
11 April Europe made its first attempt to exile Napoleon to a small island, Elba, this day in 1814 http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/napoleon_i |
12 April Did you know April is National Autism Awareness Month? http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/autism |
13 April Happy Birthday Thomas Jefferson, born this day in 1743! http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/jefferson_thomas_1743_1826 |
14 April The Titanic struck an iceberg this day 1912, setting up the first crisis of inheritance at Downton Abbey http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/titanic |
17 April Magical Realism is the fiction genre that keeps one foot on the ground while exploring the weird and surreal http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/magic_realism |
18 April Celebrate National Pet Owner's Day with this cat Topic Page (even if who owns whom is still up for debate) http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/cat |
19 April Learn more about the literally revolutionary battles of Lexington and Concord: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/battles_of_lexington_and_concord |
20 April This day in 1841 Edgar Allen Poe invented the modern detective novel with 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/detective_fiction |
21 April Whoever said being raised by wolves was uncivilized? Legend has it Rome was founded this day in 753 BCE: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/ancient_rome |
24 April Happy birthday to the Library of Congress, established this day in 1800! http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/library_of_congress |
25 April It's World Penguin Day! http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/penguin |
26 April Charles Richter shook things up in the seismology field when he introduced his famous scale in 1935. http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/richter_scale |
27 April It's Tell a Story Day! Celebrate with this Topic Page on legendary storyteller, Aesop: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/aesop |
28 April A Chinese proverb says, 'The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The 2nd best time is now.' Happy Arbor Day! http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/tree |