Month-Long Observances
- National Wellness Month
- National Eye Exam Month
- National Immunization Awareness Month
Religious or Cultural Observances
- Lammas / Lughnasadh (8/1), Pagan, Wiccan
- Obon (Ullambana) (8/13-8/16), Buddhist
- Mawlid al-Nabi (expected 8/25) Islamic
- Zhongyuan Festival (8/27), Buddhist, Daoist
- Raksha Bandhan (8/28), Hindu, Jain, Sikh
Dates of Significance
- International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (8/9)
- International Youth Day (8/12)
- World Organ Donation Day (8/13)
- World Humanitarian Day (8/19)
- World Senior Citizens’ Day (8/21)
- International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition (8/23)
- Women’s Equality Day (8/26)
Library Resources
Links shared are ebooks, all others are physical resources in our Behind the Eyes Collection.
Month-Long Observances:
National Eye Exam Month
- The Eye Exam: A Complete Guide by Gary S. Schwartz
- Manual for Eye Examination and Diagnosis by Mark Leitman
National Immunization Awareness Month
- Immunization and vaccination by Richard Alder, Margaret Trexler Hessen, and M.D.; Fleming Fallon
- Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial by Stuart Blume
Dates of Significance:
World Organ Donation Day (8/13)
- Organ Donation by Micah Issitt
