At Credo we understand the need for libraries to write interesting social media content to engage your users and raise awareness of valuable resources and services. That’s why we’ve created this monthly blog post with social media posts featuring interesting observances, trivia, this-day-in-history, and humor that your library can copy/paste to your own feed with no attribution necessary.
PS: the images here are all in the public domain (mostly from Pixabay and Wikimedia Commons), so feel free to take advantage of them when you post!
2 February
Happy Groundhog Day! Don’t want to rely on the groundhog’s weather predictions? Learn more about what goes into weather forecasting here:
https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?concept=Weather%20forecasting
2 February
Originally called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game, the Super Bowl’s present name, suggested by Lamar Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, was based on that of the Rose Bowl.
https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?concept=Super%20Bowl&institution
4 February
Celebrate Black History Month with an exploration of all aspects of African-American history and culture.
https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?concept=African%20Americans
10 February
The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, adopted on this day in 1967, clarified presidential succession, explicitly stating the vice president’s right to full succession.
https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?concept=Presidential%20Succession%20Act
14 February
Happy Valentine’s Day! Did you know that in 1999, some 3,000 couples in Belarus celebrated by attempting to set a new world record for the largest kiss-in?
https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?concept=Valentine%27s%20Day
15 February
National Entrepreneurship Week starts today. What drives the entrepreneur is not so much money, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, the founder of the study of entrepreneurship, argued, as the joy of creating…and to succeed for the sake of success.
https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?concept=entrepreneurship
17 February
This Presidents’ Day, honor U.S. presidents throughout history with a nod to the very first.
https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?concept=George%20Washington
19 February
American novelist Harper Lee died on this day in 2016. She was best known for her enduring classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.
https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?concept=Harper%20Lee
20 February
Out of this world! On this day in 1962, John Glenn became the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth.
https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=space%20exploration
22 February
On this day in 1997, scientists announced the first successful cloning of a mammal. Dolly the sheep proved that a cell could be taken from any part of the body and used to recreate the entire individual.
https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?concept=Cloning
27 February
Today is International Polar Bear Day!
https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?concept=Polar%20bear
29 February
Happy Leap Day! Learn more about measures of time and how leap years came about: https://search.credoreference.com/search/all?searchPhrase=calendar
