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The New Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
review by
Roger W. Klein
Grolier's Multimedia encyclopedia has got to be the best CD that
I have ever seen! It not only has loads of educational value but is
also brimming with entertainment value. The disc is loaded with
multimedia clips of different historic events, full color animated
maps, and sound effects covering a broad range of subjects.
This award winning CD-ROM contains all 21 volumes of the popular
Academic Encyclopedia. It includes over 33,000 articles on a broad
range of subjects - Science, World History, Music, Art and a whole
lot more.
Grolier's uses Multimedia maps that incorporate animation and an
intelligent narration that leads you both through time and space.
The Knowledge Explorer's Audio-Visual Essays combine photos, music
and narration to provide overviews of such subjects as the Human
Body, Space Exploration, and the Lands and Peoples of Africa.
The great thing about having a full set of encyclopedias on disk
is the fact that you can search for a topic and Grolier's will bring
up every instance of that topic from every volume in the set. This
saves considerable time compared to searching the indexes of a
hardcopy set of encyclopedias. As an example, I did a search for
the words "scale" and "music" (by utilizing the search feature's
"and" and "or" options you can narrow your search). The search
brought up a list of 41 articles with 151 occurrences.
You can even place bookmarks so that you can come back to topics
found in a search.
After choosing the topic "music" Groliers provided me with an
extensive definition of the term including descriptions of the
different types of music in the world. By clicking on the sound
icon on the tool menu, a list of various musical pieces is displayed
that can be played in full stereo using a compatible sound card.
For children, teens, and college students having a tool such as
Groliers available for research projects and term papers would be
invaluable. For adults, Groliers can provide hours of entertainment
and also serve as a great reference tool for an almost unlimited
number of topics. I would have given anything to have access to
something like Groliers when I was going through school.
Regardless, I have found many instances where having it now has been
a great help. Groliers is great to have even if you only n eed to
look up a definition. However, you'll definitely want to take full
advantage of this veritable knowledge treasure.
Requirements: IBM-compatible PC, 386SX or better
MS-DOS 3.3 or higher
MS-Extensions 2.21 or higher
MS-Windows 3.1
VGA (SVGA recommended)
MS-Windows-compatible sound card
1.5MB Hard disk space
4 MB RAM
Mouse
MPC-compliant CD-ROM (Min. 150KB/Sec throughput)
Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc.
Sherman Turnpike
Danbury, CT 06816
(203) 797-3530