Outreach Library Outreach Library Services MSDB is a depository for a federal program which provides captioned videos to enhance and supplement classroom studies for deaf and hard of hearing students. Schools in this western region of the United States may borrow any of the videos housed here. Requests are usually made by a computer program established for this purpose. Anyone working with deaf and hard of hearing children may become a member.
All members have access to the videos.
A catalog is provided for each member. Tactile materials and some electronics are also available. Some federal funds are provided to states to help with purchases. A census is taken each year in each state to determine the number of students served in each state. The federal funds which APH lobbies for in Congress are distributed among the states according to number of students served.