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 December |
Glaciers not guns: Antarctica was declared a military-free continent this day in 1959 http://bit.ly/1y94qYq |
| Tuesday |
2 December |
As you prepare to travel this season, try to forget that the inventers of the 1st airplane were highschool dropouts http://bit.ly/1rIc1FS |
| Wednesday |
3 December |
Cardio-historians are pumped to celebrate the anniversary of the first <3 transplant in 1967. http://bit.ly/1vYe7c2 |
| Thursday |
4 December |
Did you know Reindeer are the only deer in which both sexes have antlers? http://bit.ly/11EC5eq |
| Friday |
5 December |
Prohibition ended in the US this day in 1933. Cheers! http://bit.ly/1uXvceU |
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| Monday |
8 December |
Happy BDay to the industrious Eli Whitney! http://bit.ly/1uXvjHo |
| Tuesday |
9 December |
In modern financial terms Poor Richards Almanac was so successful as to "make it rain" http://bit.ly/1B2hfVu #AllAbouttheBenjamins |
| Wednesday |
10 December |
If Time Management were a sport, this part of the year would be its Super Bowl: http://bit.ly/12g3ymC |
| Thursday |
11 December |
One of America's most famous rocks was landed upon this day in 1620: http://bit.ly/1zKnjwW |
| Friday |
12 December |
Let my people go... out to the movies: New Exodus film starring Christian Bale opens tonight http://bit.ly/1uXvIK6 |
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| Monday |
15 December |
Hannukah begins tomorrow at sundown! Learn more about the festival of lights with this Topic Page: http://bit.ly/1yvJtWe |
| Tuesday |
16 December |
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that today is Jane Austen's birthday: http://bit.ly/1tAG0za |
| Wednesday |
17 December |
Forgetting that today is National Maple Syrup Day could land you in a sticky situation... http://bit.ly/12g3LGt |
| Thursday |
18 December |
Retweet this if you agree that Information Literacy is the gift that keeps on giving! http://bit.ly/1FGNvxj |
| Friday |
19 December |
Don't be a Scrooge, share this Dickens TopicPage with your friends! http://bit.ly/1vYedjF |
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| Monday |
22 December |
Dostoevsky dodged a bullet when his execution was stayed this day in 1849. http://bit.ly/1yoZDiZ |
| Tuesday |
23 December |
Festivus for the rest of us! Let's all gather around this aluminum Topic Page http://bit.ly/1FGrnkP |
| Wednesday |
24 December |
Happy BDay to teen-love-geometrist Stephanie Meyer http://bit.ly/1DRSj2F |
| Thursday |
25 December |
Did you know that in Japan stockings are hung on the bathtub stove pipe? Learn about other world X-mas customs here: http://bit.ly/1vzqMP7 |
| Friday |
26 December |
St. Nicholas is a patron saint of archers, which might explain all that Katniss merch in your stocking this year http://bit.ly/1rGwpgi |
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| Monday |
29 December |
How long was Texas an independent republic before joining the US this day in 1845? http://bit.ly/127F5Rq |
| Tuesday |
30 December |
USSR established this day in 1922 to the fears of many and the delight of espionage novelists everywhere http://bit.ly/1uXwvdV |
| Wednesday |
31 December |
In Scotland, today is known as Old Year’s Night, or "Hogmanay." Happy New Year to people everywhere! http://bit.ly/1tqxQdD |
Images:
Bringing Home A Christmas Tree, By edited by Mary Mapes Dodge [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bringing_Home_A_Christmas_Tree.jpg
Second Candle of Hanukkah, By Noam Furer (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Second_candle_of_Hanukkah.JPG
Christmas Tree, By Kelvinsong (Own work) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christmas_Tree.png
FrogNewYearChampagne, By Not credited (Postcard from 1908 via [1]) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FrogNewYearChampagne.jpg
