The Library will be closed next week on Tuesday, July 4th for the Independence Day holiday. We will be open on Monday and will re-open on Wednesday the 5th at 8:00 a.m.
Wishing everyone a very happy and safe 4th of July!
Closed for the 4th
Library closed for Juneteenth
The Library at the IIDC will be closed on Monday, June 19th in observance of the Juneteenth federal holiday. We will re-open at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 20th.
Wishing everyone a lovely long weekend!
April is Autism Acceptance Month
In April, we raise awareness for Autism Acceptance Month, a time to learn more about autism spectrum disorders and accepting the disorder as a natural human condition. According to the CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network, about 1 in 36 children are now diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders, a statistic that has been on a steady rise over the past twenty years. Learn more about the CDC’s ADDM and the statistics they gather: Data & Statistics on Autism Spectrum Disorder.
The Library at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community has a large number of books and DVDs on the topic of autism spectrum disorders! View our helpful topic guide that makes browsing from afar a bit easier: Autism Resource Guide or search all of our holdings using Indiana University’s online library catalog: IUCAT. Hoosiers throughout Indiana may email us libiidc@indiana.edu or call us 800-437-7924 with specific titles you’d like to borrow. Additionally, the Indiana Resource Center for Autism has a great article discussing the incidence of autism in Indiana and tips on supporting adults on the spectrum: Autism Acceptance Month.
March is Developmental Disability Awareness Month
March is Developmental Disability Awareness Month, a nationwide observance to bring forward awareness of including people with disabilities in our communities and to look at the barriers to that inclusion. Here in the Library at the IIDC, we have put together a guide to make finding library materials that we have on this subject easier for you.
The guide is broken out into Books for Adults, Books for Children, and DVDs so that you can easily find what you’re looking for. Feel free to look through our Disability Awareness guide, and if you find something you want to check out, give us a call at 800-437-7924 or send an email at libiidc@indiana.edu and let us know which titles you’d like. If you live or work in Indiana, but not in Bloomington, we can send our library materials to you through the mail at our expense and just ask that you return them within 4 weeks at your expense.
Get in touch!
Other resources for disability awareness materials:
Administration on Community Living
National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities
Winter Storm News
Staff at the IIDC Library will be working remotely on Wednesday, January 25th due to the winter storm. Please call 800-437-7924 or email libiidc@indiana.edu if you have questions or to request library materials. We hope to be back open on Thursday the 26th and would be able to send out library materials then.
Thank you for your understanding!