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The Library Services for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing has been in existence on a local level, in Nashville, since August 1978, and statewide in Tennessee since 1983. The initial program, a TTY News Service (1978-2001), provided international, national, state and local news and statewide weather reports to the deaf community. Services expanded to include a small lending library of books and media programs beginning in 1979. Once-a-month open-captioned movies were also shown at the Nashville Public Library Main Library as an initial programming effort during the first couple of years.