The California State Department of Education conducted a special study of the condition of library media centers in the state's schools during the 1985-86 school year. Coordinated with a concurrent nationwide study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, this study surveyed a random sample of 1,560 elementary, intermediate, and secondary schools in rural, small city, suburban, and urban areas; the response rate was 63%. This report presents both the state and national findings and recommendations in five areas: (1) library media facilities, including information on schools with centralized libraries, the size and capacity of libraries, and the use of library facilities; (2) staffing patterns and the number of libraries without professional staff; (3) services provided by library media centers; (4) collections and equipment, including information on numbers of books, subscriptions, and audiovisual materials, and on the quality of library media collections; and (5) budgets and expenditures other than salaries and wages, including summary statistics for six case-study schools. The report concludes with a discussion of the future of library media services in California schools. (MES)