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Multimedia resources were a major component of the collection of libraries as non-print materials. The non-print materials found in libraries were mainly in the form of photographs, filmstrips, maps, slides, motion picture films, LP records, audio spools, audio and videotapes, laserdiscs, video discs, etc. Most of these materials require specialized devices for consultation. The Library of Congress has been collecting maps since 1865. Films and sound recordings have been in use since the 1890s and both were collected in libraries. The National Film Archive in Britain was established in 1935 and the United States National Archives set up a division of motion picture and sound recording in the same year (Harrison, 1979). Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, and video content forms. It enables the users to integrate and manipulate data from diverse sources such as video, graphics, animation, audio and text on a single hardware platform. The term multimedia is used in contrast to media which only utilizes traditional forms of printed or hand-produced text. Multimedia is one of the most fascinating and fastest-growing areas, in the field of Information Technology.
