This festschrift contains 17 papers on the impact of CD-ROM technology: (1) "CD-ROM and Access to Information in the South" (Abdelaziz Abid); (2) "CD-ROM and Bridging of Cultural and Technological Gaps in Developing Countries" (Shmuel Sever); (3) "Electronic Publishing Developments and Opportunities from OCLC" (Janet Mitchell); (4) "Science Citation Index Print and CD--The Best of Both Worlds from ISI" (Heather Taylor); (5) "The Forgiving Building Revisited" (Anders C. Dahlgren); (6) "How Will CD-ROM Affect the Cooperation within Library Networks?" (Hans-Albrecht Koch); (7) "Beyond Online? Interactive Public Access to Library Files via CD-ROM" (Heiner Schnelling); (8) "Electronic Library? The Consequences of Micros on Data Processing Systems in Libraries in the Age of CD-ROM" (Karl Wilhelm Neubauer); (9) "The Impact of CD-ROM on Library Operations: To Buy or To Make--One Library's Experience Producing a Catalogue on CD-ROM" (Ellen M. Pearson); (10) "ADONIS--The Strategic Needs of Publishers" (David J. Brown); (11) "ADONIS--From Myth to Reality" (J. Andrew Braid); (12) "The ADONIS-Project: First Experiences in the Central Library of Medicine, Cologne" (Ulrich Korwitz); (13) "The Future of CD-ROMs for Full Text of Journals" (Maurice B. Line); (14) "Dutch Reference Databases (NRB)" (J. Martin Feijen); (15) "The Deutsche Bibliographie and CD-ROM" (Kurt Nowak); (16) "CD-ROM for National Bibliographies: A European Project" (Robert L. Smith); and (17) "Two Major British Catalogues on CD-ROM" (Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey). The seminar agenda, a list of participants, and a list of participating vendors preface the collection. (KRN)