They can be cataloged in the school library and checked out along with other library print and nonprint resources. They can also be loaned to students to take home to show parents and broadcast over local cable on the school district's channel or on the public access channel. You are getting more use out of equipment you already have on hand. The beauty of the multimedia center is that it is mobile and on wheels. It can go anywhere, or it can stay away.
Teachers invite it into their class- room only when they are ready to experiment with multimedia.
Or you might collaborate with fellow teachers to assemble the cart as a school-wide project. In that case you might enlist the help of the school's media specialist to house the cart in the school library or media center. Then the cart becomes a school-wide resource. If the cart's home base is in the library, then the media specialist can stock the cart with the library's print and nonprint resources that pertain to curriculum units a class is doing. In some schools, the multimedia center is distributed across three carts.