June 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.

1 June
This day in 1980, Ted Turner launched CNN, the first 24 hour news channel: https://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/turner_ted_1938

2 June
Celebrate US Dairy Month with the cream of the crop in scholarly sources, like this Topic Page on dairy farming: https://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/dairy_farming 

5 June

The UN has declared this World Environment Day. This year's theme is reconnecting with nature: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/nature 

6 June
"Nineteen Eighty-Four," published this day in 1949, saw a 9,500% increase in sales this past January. https://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/nineteen_eighty_four 

7 June
Praxiteles is the only ancient master with an undisputed statue to survive from the 4th century BCE. Learn more: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/praxiteles_c_370_330_bc 

8 June
Happy birthday to iconic American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, born this day 1867! https://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/wright_frank_lloyd_1867_1959 

9 June
Celebrate Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month with the onion's less popular but sweeter cousin, the shallot: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/shallot 

12 June
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, this day in 1929 https://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/frank_anne_1929_1945 

13 June
This Topic Page on allergies is nothing to sneeze at: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/allergy 

14 June
Get your research out of the pits with sources like this Topic Page on Olives: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/olive 

15 June
It's Worldwide Knit in Public Day! https://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/knitting 

16 June
Happy Bloomsday! James Joyce' s novel, Ulysses was entirely set on June 16, 1904. https://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/ulysses_novel 

19 June
Many observe today as Juneteenth, celebrating of the emancipation of the last enslaved people in the United States. http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/slavery

20 June
Today is a big day for sports-related revolutionary events: the Tennis Court Oath (1789) and Boxer Uprising (1900) http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/boxer_uprising  

21 June
The US Constitution was ratified this day in 1788. It remains the world’s oldest surviving written constitution. http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/constitution_of_the_united_states 

22 June
More than a fruit, pineapple leaves are used as a fiber for making clothes in South America and the Philippines: https://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/pineapple 

23 June
Semantics studies the relationship of words and meanings, and is important to both linguists and philosophers: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/semantics 

26 June
The first bike was patented in 1819, however two decades would pass before someone came up with pedals: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/bicycle 

27 June
Happy birthday Helen Keller! Learn more Keller, including how the FBI surveilled her for radical views: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/keller_helen_1880_1968 

28 June
Kiwis used to be called Chinese Gooseberries, but after the Communist revolution, they were rebranded in the West: http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/kiwi 

29 June
The iPhone turns 10 today! http://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/iphone_smartphone 

30 June
Did you know the average depth of the ocean is 12,230 ft? Fish for more fun ocean facts here: https://search.credoreference.com/content/topic/ocean