Newbie: type size

I'm doing a CD booklet for a 3 cd set for my own company. Most of the type is 10 pt Baskerville.
But I have some pages just THICK with personnel (big bands, etc.). I think I know the answer to this, but...
5 pt is too small to read, right?
(I've discovered that the screen display for "actual size" of the booklet 100% is smaller than the actual booklet: Actual size is actually 136%. At 136% the 5 pt doesn't show up on the screen.)
What's the minimal I can get away with, not for text, but for the solid page listing about 50 people (many of whom are deceased and won't mind)?

Actual size depends on monitor resolution. Your actual size is probably different from my actual size. 5 pt type may or may not show on your screen at a particular size. This depends on two things: your greeking setting in Preferences (probably defaulted to greek text below 7 pt) and monitor resolution. The important thing to remember is that your CD booklet is not going to be viewed on your monitor. It's going to be viewed as a printed document. So when you make decisions about readability, print it on a good laser printer and judge that.
CD *labels* regularly have text on them at 6 pt, occasionally 5 pt. That doesn't mean it's comfortably readable, just that CD labels are really small and most people can strain to read 5 pt type with their glasses on (or without, if they don't need glasses). CD booklets are pretty small too, but you're not working with the same overall area constraint (you can make as many pages as you want).
If you want to keep it comfortably readable, stick with 7 pt or higher.
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