The Church has just launched a new LDS Media Library, an online resource available for members to download and use high-quality video, audio, and images to help share the gospel.
Editor’s Note (29 April 2019): The “LDS Media Library” on the Church website has been renamed “Gospel Media.”
You can reach the site from the LDS.org menu by clicking Media Library under the heading Study, or by going directly to medialibrary.lds.org.
This first release of the LDS Media Library includes just the video portion, including 700 videos for online streaming and downloading. Future releases will include audio and images.
- Browse through videos in 24 different categories. Read guidelines on how you can download and use these videos.
- You can contribute your photography to help build the online gallery. Your photos may be used in Church magazines, brochures, posters, blogs, videos, websites, and members’ blogs, lessons, and other media.
- You can submit your photos now through volunteer.lds.org, a Church website that helps you take part in a variety of service opportunities.
- The Media Library includes information about accessing Church media on mobile devices, Internet TV, podcasts, RSS feeds, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, iTunes, audiobooks, e-books, and live online broadcasts.
- There is also a section about using media in the home, for lessons, and in sharing the Gospel.
The theme of the site is “Learn, Share, Create:”
- Learn—Incredible resources to learn more about the Savior and His Gospel.
- Share—Give others the chance to hear about the restored Gospel by e-mailing a link to a friend, embedding inspiring videos in a blog, or sharing a brief message with a neighbor. You can also use this media at home or in Sunday lessons.
- Create—Contribute to the Church by expressing your testimony in various media formats or participating in a video or photo contest to proclaim the gospel and share your talents.
Based on user feedback, we’ve turned off the auto-play on the media player. This setting is automatically updated wherever the player is embedded, so users don’t need to do anything else. A still from the videos will just display now until a user clicks the play button.
Any idea when images will be available to use on our personal blogs? I found an image I want to use on my German language blog (http://brycedermormone.blogspot.com/), but I see this information on the LDS Media Library Website (http://www.lds.org/media-library/licenses-restrictions?lang=eng):
‘Ways you cannot use downloadable media from the LDS Media Library:
Burn DVDs for any distribution. Distribution of the DVD requires additional permissions.
Publish to other websites.
Cut or alter existing Church-owned media to create new products, even for personal use.”
Any idea when and how these restrictions will be lifted to allow us to share the gospel on “members’ blogs” with nice images from the LDS Media website as described above?
Let me know.
Thanks!
Bryce Rogers
Bryce, we’re trying to get that changed. In the meantime, you can send a request to cor-intellectualproperty@ldschurch.org
Now I am totally lost. I cannot find anything for lessons. How about an easy access to lessons, written talks for committed seniors like me? I can’t waste time with all these great but not what I am looking for items. Please give me a search box like on the old official homepage.
I have the app on my android phone. It allows for trimming of videos to just the segment I need for my lesson. How do you do that on this web based version?
Trimming videos is available on the app, but not online.