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This is the first of a two‐part article on the emergence of CD‐ROM in the online publishing industry. Part 1 introduces the business and technology aspects of electronic and optical publishing, and suggests some issues which distinguish and some which bind the two together. Part 2 looks at the applications and the users of electronic and optical publishing products, and suggest some overlap and some sacred ground unique to each medium and its content and customer base.

Library and Information Science Abstracts have successfully completed a pilot project, with SilverPlatter Information Limited, that has resulted in a one‐year file of Lisa for 1984 being recorded onto CD‐ROM (Compact Disk — Read Only Memory). Plans are now well under way for providing the complete Lisa database on CD‐ROM commercially by mid‐1986.

PC availability stimulates library use. The availability of a single desktop computer can enable libraries to expand their professional services and provide new assistance to researchers, according to a survey conducted by Disclosure, a US company specialising in the dissemination of Securities and Exchange Commission filing information.

‘Living is learning,’ Konrad Lorenz once remarked, to which multimedia system designers might add that the more life‐like the educational tools, the better the learning. Hence, the growing interest in combining interactive training and educational programs with music, moving images, colour and sound.

Looking to the future, this article presents the argument that of two principal interactive technologies currently vying for primary use in education, video disc and CD‐ROM, it is the latter that will emerge as the better option once the dust has settled. The case is examined in the context of entertainment and education, the information highway, and integrated learning systems.