A List of Tennessee State Publications is compiled quarterly and is available free of charge upon request. In addition, state records are deposited with the TSLA and are organized in over 200 record groups. The TSLA is a selective depository for Federal documents dating from 1784 to the present and includes the Congressional set. Strong areas of selection are law materials and administrative and statistical reports. Indexes and finding aids to the various government documents are available in the reading rooms.
Emphasis is on the states of the southeast.
These publications are diverse in subject matter and cover two centuries of progress in the states. The TSLA currently collects about 200 newspapers from Tennessee towns and cities. All extant Tennessee newspapers are available on microfilm. A list by communities is available in the reading rooms. An index to the Nashville papers is available on microfiche.