For gamers with disabilities

Ever wondered how you could modify your Xbox controller for one-handed use? According to an article published on makezine.com, you just need a few tools. Here's the article which features a handy video:
http://makezine.com/2015/12/14/modifying-xbox-controllers-for-gamers-with-disabilities-ben-heck-shows-how/

Holiday Hours

In observance of the year end holidays, the CeDIR library will close at 4:00 p.m. today for two weeks and will re-open at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, January 4th. We wish everyone a happy holiday season and a wonderful new year!

Mindful parenting for ADHD: A guide to cultivating calm, reducing stress, & helping children thrive

Mindful parenting for ADHD: A guide to cultivating calm, reducing stress, & helping children thrive "addresses the various symptoms of ADHD using non-technical language and a user-friendly format. In addition, he offers guidelines to help you assess your child's strengths and weaknesses, create plans for building skills and managing specific challenges, lower stress levels for both yourself and your child, communicate effectively, and cultivate balance and harmony at home and at school." -publisher

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Be My Eyes

Earlier this year, I blogged about an app that brings together a community of volunteers to help people with vision impairments. Yesterday, NPR's All Tech Considered published a story about the app in action.

To read the story from NPR, please visit;
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/12/15/459870958/help-a-blind-person-identify-everyday-things-via-smartphone-app

To go to the app's website, visit:
http://www.bemyeyes.org/

After Ever After

In After Ever After, "Jeffrey isn't a little boy with cancer anymore. He's a teen in remission. Even though the cancer should be far behind him, life still feels fragile. His parents still worry about him. His older brother, Steven, who has always been Jeffrey's main support system and confidant, lost it and took off to Africa to be in a drumming circle and "find himself." His best friend, Tad, is hatching some kind of secretive, crazy plan, which is driving him bonkers. And there is a girl who is way out of his league but who thinks he's cute." -publisher

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - Measure This: Holiday

"'Tis the season for measuring fun! Which is longer? Which has more? Which is smaller? Filled with real-life seasonal images, this colorful workbook explores comparison and measurement. This Clever Goats Workbook includes an interactive ruler and a personalized Certificate of Completion that can be saved and printed. The perfect holiday complement to the Measure This workbook!" -iTunes

Want to learn more about this app? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id748576894

Under the wolf, under the dog

In Under the wolf, under the dog, "sixteen-year-old Steve struggles to make sense of his mother's terminal breast cancer and his brother's suicide. Steve Nugent is in a facility called Burnstone Grove. It's a place for kids who are addicts, like Shannon Lynch, who can stick $1.87 in change up his nose, or for kids who have tried to commit suicide, like Silent Starla, whom Steve is getting a crush on. But Steve doesn't really fit in either group. He used to go to a gifted school. So why is he being held at Burnstone Grove? Keeping a journal, in which he recalls his confused and violent past, Steve is left to figure out who he is by examining who he was." -publisher

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Special Time with Santa

On Friday, December 11th, from noon until 6:00 p.m., the Fountain Square Mall in Bloomington will be hosting a Special Time for families with people with special needs to visit with Santa Claus. Photographs will be discounted at $3.00 each. Santa will be located at the mantle scene in the main atrium of Fountain Square Mall, located at 101 W. Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47404.

Library closing early

The CeDIR Library will be closing at 2:45 this afternoon. We will re-open at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Thank you!

Mobile App Monday - Chai on Chanukah

"This app is 100% geared towards Jewish Parents and their Children. It has something for everyone because it is both highly entertaining and very educational. Kids will love it because it is interactive and fun. Parents will love it because the educational text comes directly from a Rabbi and wrote it as a loving supplement to rabbinical teachings for kids." -iTunes

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id482830803

CeDIR Library Holiday Hours

Season's greeting from CeDIR to you! This year, the library will be closed for two weeks for the year end holidays. If you have library materials to return, you may do so by mail or return them to any Indiana University library at any time. If you'd like to get items checked out, please contact us by Friday, December 18th. We will be closed from December 19th through January 3rd and will re-open at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, January 4th.

Email: cedir@indiana.edu
Phone: 812-855-9396
Toll-Free: 800-437-7924

Happy Holidays!

A Mango-Shaped Space

In A mango-shaped space, "thirteen-year-old Mia Winchell has a secret: sounds, numbers, and words appear to her in color. Mia has synesthesia, the mingling of perceptions whereby a person sees sounds or tastes shapes. This coming-of-age novel chronicles Mia's developing appreciation for her gift." -publisher

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

What's New

Wow, it's December 1st already! Turkey is behind us and more holidays are ahead of us. So are colder temps, ice, and snow. Brr! But before we get too far into the winter weather, let's first take a look back at the new items that came in to the library last month.

To see the entire list, please visit:

http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/whats-new