--- title: August Social Media Content for Libraries description: August Social Media Content for Libraries image: https://blog.credoreference.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/1024px-Pemaquid_Point_Light-300x225.jpg --- ![credoreference](https://blog.credoreference.com/hubfs/Reference/Reference%20Logos/Credo%20Logos/Credo_Landingpage_header-Blog.jpg "credoreference")   - [Credo in Action](https://blog.credoreference.com/topic/credo-in-action) - [First Year Experience](https://blog.credoreference.com/topic/first-year-experience) - [Il Learning Community](https://blog.credoreference.com/topic/information-literacy) - [Affordable Learning Solutions](https://blog.credoreference.com/topic/affordable-learning-solutions) # August Social Media Content for Libraries Posted by [Credo](https://blog.credoreference.com/author/credoreference) on 7/28/15 1:44 PM [Customer Success](https://blog.credoreference.com/topic/customer-success), [Social Media](https://blog.credoreference.com/topic/social-media), [Uncategorized](https://blog.credoreference.com/topic/uncategorized) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) 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 | 3 August | Did you know wild watermelons are not much larger than apples. Happy National Watermelon Day! [http://bit.ly/1tYo4Rs](http://bit.ly/1tYo4Rs) | | --- | --- | --- | | Tuesday | 4 August | Marshmallows first came from mallow herbs growing in marshes, meaning Stay Puff & Swamp Thing may share an ancestor [http://bit.ly/1HZ4jRU](http://bit.ly/1HZ4jRU) | | Wednesday | 5 August | Nuclear deals of old: 52 years ago today the US, USSR & UK signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: [http://bit.ly/1JPaoOJ](http://bit.ly/1JPaoOJ) | | Thursday | 6 August | Norse squirrel Ratatosk was trouble for birds on the Tree of Life, Yggdrasil...and it didn't even have birdfeeders! [http://bit.ly/1IpgcgZ](http://bit.ly/1IpgcgZ) | | Friday | 7 August | Happy National Lighthouse Day! Lighthouse use has declined with new tech, but shines on in metaphors and archetypes [http://bit.ly/1LQ2jxV](http://bit.ly/1LQ2jxV) | | | | [![1024px-Pemaquid_Point_Light](https://blog.credoreference.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/1024px-Pemaquid_Point_Light-300x225.jpg?width=300&height=225&name=1024px-Pemaquid_Point_Light-300x225.jpg)](https://blog.credoreference.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/1024px-Pemaquid_Point_Light-e1438104354464.jpg) | | Monday | 10 August | We associate the Declaration of Independence with July 4th, but news of it didn't reach London until this day, 1776 [http://bit.ly/1VLDcAR](http://bit.ly/1VLDcAR) | | Tuesday | 11 August | It was "strike" puns as far as the eye could see this day in 1994 when MLB players walked off the job. [http://bit.ly/1mA5DfN](http://bit.ly/1mA5DfN) | | Wednesday | 12 August | In a move that would forever change the desktop landscape, IBM announced the release of the 1st PC this day in 1981 [http://bit.ly/1OzfhiO](http://bit.ly/1OzfhiO) | | Thursday | 13 August | Celebrate Left-Hander's Day with famous southpaw Oprah Winfrey: [http://bit.ly/1Mt4t7c](http://bit.ly/1Mt4t7c) | | Friday | 14 August | When finding good resources feels like solving a mystery, Topic Pages are the clue that blows the case wide open [http://bit.ly/19CXGrd](http://bit.ly/19CXGrd) | | | | [![Pitch_notation](https://blog.credoreference.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Pitch_notation-300x183.png?width=300&height=183&name=Pitch_notation-300x183.png)](https://blog.credoreference.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Pitch_notation.png) | | Monday | 17 August | Ut, Re, Mi? The 1st musical scale used the initial syllables of lines from a Latin hymn: ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la [http://bit.ly/1h3atYp](http://bit.ly/1h3atYp) | | Tuesday | 18 August | Genghis Khan died 787 yrs ago, but lives on in the DNA of about 8% of men living in former Mongol territories today [http://bit.ly/1gjGf3j](http://bit.ly/1gjGf3j) | | Wednesday | 19 August | This day in 480 BCE a small group of Spartans made a giant stand at Thermopylae [http://bit.ly/1qjRwPy](http://bit.ly/1qjRwPy)  #300 | | Thursday | 20 August | Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation allows us a glimpse of space long ago, and galaxies far far away: [http://bit.ly/1bZyuxj](http://bit.ly/1bZyuxj) | | Friday | 21 August | Party in the 100-Acre Wood! Christopher Robin celebrates a bday today (and yes, there was a real Christopher Robin): [http://bit.ly/1oacCNi](http://bit.ly/1oacCNi) | | | | [![1024px-Karl_Brullov_-_The_Last_Day_of_Pompeii_-_Google_Art_Project](https://blog.credoreference.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/1024px-Karl_Brullov_-_The_Last_Day_of_Pompeii_-_Google_Art_Project-300x211.jpg?width=300&height=211&name=1024px-Karl_Brullov_-_The_Last_Day_of_Pompeii_-_Google_Art_Project-300x211.jpg)](https://blog.credoreference.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/1024px-Karl_Brullov_-_The_Last_Day_of_Pompeii_-_Google_Art_Project-e1438104860246.jpg) | | Monday | 24 August | Vesuvius erupted this day in 79. Archaeologists do not know whether the people of Pompeii were optimists about this [http://bit.ly/1U4dYvS](http://bit.ly/1U4dYvS) | | Tuesday | 25 August | Celebrate the 99th birthday of the US National Parks Service with this Great Smoky Mountains Topic Page: [http://bit.ly/1ScL0ML](http://bit.ly/1ScL0ML) | | Wednesday | 26 August | Happy Women's Equality Day! 95 years ago today the 19th Amendment granted women in the US the right to vote [http://bit.ly/1OzfP8d](http://bit.ly/1OzfP8d) | | Thursday | 27 August | Get your research project started with Topic Pages, like this one on "Ignition" [http://bit.ly/1U4e4n2](http://bit.ly/1U4e4n2) | | Friday | 28 August | The only thing the tabloids love more than a royal wedding is a royal divorce. Charles & Diana split this day, 1996 [http://bit.ly/XczqGX](http://bit.ly/XczqGX) | | | Blank\_Tile | [![512px-Official_program_-_Woman_suffrage_procession_March_3,_1913_-_crop](https://blog.credoreference.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/512px-Official_program_-_Woman_suffrage_procession_March_3_1913_-_crop-300x222.jpg?width=300&height=222&name=512px-Official_program_-_Woman_suffrage_procession_March_3_1913_-_crop-300x222.jpg)](https://blog.credoreference.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/512px-Official_program_-_Woman_suffrage_procession_March_3_1913_-_crop-e1438105285639.jpg) | | Monday | 31 August | This Numerology Topic Page is a resource you can count on: [http://bit.ly/1D6dukL](http://bit.ly/1D6dukL) | **Images:** Pemaquid Point Light.jpg, By William Grimes at en.wikipedia (Own work Transferred from en.wikipedia) \[Public domain\], via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pemaquid\_Point\_Light.JPG Pitch Notation.png, By User:Angr (Own work) \[Public domain\], via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pitch\_notation.png Karl Brullov - The Last Day of Pompeii - Google Art Project.jpg, Karl Briullov \[Public domain or Public domain\], via Wikimedia Commons Official program - Woman suffrage procession March 3, 1913 - crop.jpg, Adam Cuerden \[Public domain or Attribution\], via Wikimedia Commons ### Subscribe to Email Updates ## Follow us and like us! ### [![Follow by Email](https://blog.credoreference.com/hs-fs/hubfs/flat_email.png?width=44&name=flat_email.png "Follow by Email")](http://www.specificfeeds.com/widgets/emailSubscribeEncFeed/VzVRak5yeThnRTgrY1lseUtIRlZmQVI1WkNDbGdldkxBWndST1RBYk9oMEcwS1lraFNVZHVKTkc3cDNndjBQN1p5KzdUTDVXL3VtdGRyUVdRb0tRVEFDZlR4djI5YUxPQUZ0aXU1WnR0Wi9XMmh2bkhvYWtzK2h5aXUvdzhXV0R8dHJCdklmdEIwM2dzaytjY1B1UTVIak9RYzIrZjI2a1NhTW1CbWE0a0hNMD0=/OA==/) [![Facebook](https://blog.credoreference.com/hs-fs/hubfs/flat_facebook.png?width=44&name=flat_facebook.png "Facebook")](https://www.facebook.com/credoreference) [![Twitter](https://blog.credoreference.com/hs-fs/hubfs/flat_twitter.png?width=44&name=flat_twitter.png "Twitter")](https://twitter.com/credoreference) [![LinkedIn](https://blog.credoreference.com/hs-fs/hubfs/flat_linkedin.png?width=44&name=flat_linkedin.png "LinkedIn")](https://www.linkedin.com/company/826388)  [Tweets by credoreference](https://twitter.com/credoreference) ### Recent Posts