This SPEC (Systems and Procedures Exchange Center) kit provides a sample of excerpts from technical and planning documents contributed by 40 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries that are planning to install or have already implemented optical disc technology. Selected to represent a variety of media and applications, the excerpts address general as well as technical issues. Comments received in telephone interviews with contributors, as well as with other ARL members whose endeavors are not represented in this kit, are incorporated in a concise summary which discusses the overlapping and interrelated concerns of technical considerations, management issues, and impact on user services. In addition, the following original documents are included: (1) a descriptive list of optical disc technology terms from the National Library of Canada; (2) planning documents from the libraries of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Smithsonian Institution; (3) proposals from Kent State University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, Syracuse University, and Vanderbilt University; (4) descriptions of pilot/demonstration projects from the Library of Congress and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and (5) evaluative reports from Brown University, the University of Illinois, and Vanderbilt University. A 10-item selected reading list and SPEC kit evaluation and order forms are also provided. (KM)