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A set of checklists are provided to assist primary and secondary educators who are planning to build new media facilities or remodel older ones. Separate worksheets are provided for five distinct sections of the media center--the general use area, the circulation area, the _ dministrative area, the large group instruction area, and the individual instruction area--and for a dozen other components of the school. These are: 1) classrooms, 2) the graphics laboratory, 3) the photographic production area, 4) a special use area, 5) the mechanical production area, 6) the language laboratory, 7) the learning laboratory, 8) the planetarium, 9) the dial access retrieval area, 10) the television facility, 11) the special experience laboratory, and 12) the technical repair area. Individual lists of technological facilities and resources are provided for each area, to foster comprehensive planning..A glossary of media terms, a selected bibliography, and instructions for using the worksheets are also included. (LB) N co uJ