In addition, they learn how to find information on on-line services and multimedia encyclopedias.

The computerized, multimedia encyclopedias are revolutionizing the way students conduct research and learn.

Multimedia encyclopedias are being loaded into the computers, along with atlases and educational games.

Since 1994, multimedia encyclopedias have overrun their print predecessors.

Multimedia encyclopedias are the most obvious example of the indexed data bases using multiple data types.

A number of interactive multimedia encyclopedias incorporating entries written by the public existed long before Wikipedia was founded.

Children are taught research skills and learn to access information from a variety of print and technology sources, such as reference CDs and multimedia encyclopedias.

Like most multimedia encyclopedias, Encarta's articles tended to provide an overview of the subject rather than an exhaustive coverage and can only be viewed one at a time.

Until now, those services - they include special interest bulletin boards, home-repair and car-buying guides, and multimedia encyclopedias - were available only to users of Microsoft's Windows operating system software.

"We're using a lot of state funds for books that we otherwise would have used for automation, like multimedia encyclopedias on computer," said Thomas W. Galante, business manager and assistant library director for operations in Queens.

Were electronic multimedia encyclopedias (knowledge machines) freely available to all students (he doesn't say much about how to pay for the machines), the students could fully explore a subject of interest to them and gradually establish connections to other less palatable subjects.

In 1998, he founded the Noesis Cultural Society, an organization which edited the first Romanian e-books and multimedia encyclopedias dedicated to subjects of the Romanian culture: a CD-ROM containing 50 ebooks and encyclopedias about Ion Luca Caragiale and Constantin Brâncuşi.