This annotated bibliography was developed as a result of a May, 1991, Technology Seminar on Multimedia, and is intended to provide researchers with an overview of the literature pertaining to the development of multimedia technology, innovative applications, design, and implementation issues as well as with descriptions of major multimedia research and development projects and prototypes. References are dated from 1979 to 1991 and are listed alphabetically by author under the following categories: applications (8); applications--language acquisition (2); applications--library (4); applications--robots (1); artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering (9); CD-ROM (2); cognitive science (4); cultural/ethical issues (3); current multimedia projects (5); historical perspective (2); hyperbase (1); hypermedia (16); hypertext (10); instructional design (12); interactive video (3); multimedia (4); overview (8); training (2); videodiscs (6); and virtual reality (1). (DB)