Intended both as a report on an Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) Title IV project and as a guide for others wishing to initiate centralized media services in vocational-technical schools, this document describes the planning, funding, establishment, and the 1980 to 1983 operations of the Natchez Vocational Media and Research Services Center. The Center is designed to serve approximately 300 10th to 12th grade students of automotive mechanics, the building trades, business drafting, electricity, and the metal trades at the Natchez-Adams County Vocational School in Mississippi. It is noted that Natchez Center services include both the location of relevant print and nonprint materials published by outside sources and the inhouse production of videotape programs. The first half of the report presents information on budgets (with an example from the 1981-82 school year), personnel (with a vocational media specialist job description), assistance from support groups, facilities, equipment and materials, formulation of a selection policy (with sample materials and equipment evaluation forms), selection aids for vocational-technical materials, collection development, and community utilization of the center. A chronological description of the activities, procedures, and decisions involved in organizing and establishing the Natchez Center comprises the report's second half. Also provided is a list of companies producing vocational-technical materials in print and nonprint formats. (ESR)