TECHNOLOGY - June 7, 1994

‘Civilization’ on CD: World Library Inc. in Irvine launched the new multimedia version of Will and Ariel Durant’s “The Story of Civilization” on Monday at a reception at the Los Angeles Public Library.

World Library reproduced the classic book on a CD-ROM--a type of computer disk that stores sound, text, video and graphics--using previously unreleased footage of the Durants.

The company has produced other CD-ROMs aimed at literary buffs, including a multimedia version of the Gospels and Library of the Future, which stores more than 1,500 works of literature on a single disk.