Vol. X No. 1
September 1997



Editorial

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CD-Rom Review

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CD-ROM: Larousse Multimédia Encyclopédique (1996). France: Larousse.

As the name suggests this CD-ROM takes the form of an electronic Encyclopedia/ Dictionary. An excellent resource for any classroom library, this French language research tool covers literally thousands of topics of interest. The built-in search mechanism facilitates research in a variety of areas such as countries, cinema, artists, mathematics, literature, inventors, historical events and so on. The multimedia component combines written texts with photos, maps, graphs, quick-time video, and short audio texts. The dictionary function, which is particularly helpful for second language learners, allows the user to find definitions for randomly selected vocabulary or for words found in the written texts. Although students should not rely on this CD-ROM as their only source of information, it would certainly be one useful resource.

This CD-ROM as well as another entitled "Videolinguist" by Cubic Media Inc. are available for in-house use or 1-day loans at the Harriet Irving Library at UNB.