The ten articles which comprise this collection are intended to stimulate creative thinking about ways to improve existing educational media selection centers and to develop new ones. The authors share their professional judgments about how to organize, staff, administer and equip centers, how to use them to evaluate media, and how they work as individual units and as parts of larger networks. The first four articles introduce the concept of the educational media selection center, tell why it is necessary and discuss its program and administration. Other papers treat media collections, personnel tasks, facilities, budgets and networks, and the closing article presents a summary and a set of conclusions. (Author/PB)