CD‐ROMs at ALA: a review of product developments from the American Library Association midsummer exhibition

CD‐ROM (Compact Disc‐Read Only Memory) products have arrived for library and information professionals in North America! If more proof were needed than the proliferation of journal articles on the topic, the journals dedicated to this medium alone, and the publication of a guide to CD‐ROMs ‘in print’, the midsummer exhibition of the American Library Association (ALA), in San Francisco (June 1987) provided it in abundance.