OREM, Utah, Finding extra time in the lifestyle of
an active member
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can be
difficult.
"We continue to see busy
church leaders and members using PDAs and other
electronic devices to have quick access to scriptures
and reference
materials," says Jim Ericson, VP of Marketing at LDS Media.
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LDS Media, a company based in Orem, is trying to help members of the LDS
Church take
advantage of the little time they do have to read and study church
literature or listen to uplifting
spiritual messages.
The LDS PDA Library includes many titles that were not previously
available
for the handheld devices, such as The Encyclopedia of Mormonism,
Mormon Doctrine, To Draw Closer
to God, Go Forth With Faith: The Biography of
Gordon B.celtic scriptures
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books
, talks, and music), LDSLibrary.society day
This multimedia presentation is free and open to the public.
Thanks to modern technology, the options for when, how, and where to study
the scriptures or listen
to inspiring audio books, talks and music are no
longer limited. For nearly
two years the company
has operated LDSAudio. They can listen to an uplifting talk
on their lunch hour or find a few extra
minutes to plan their Sunday lessons
while waiting at the dentist's office," Smith says.
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by Paul Allen and Dan Taggart, the co-founders of Infobases,
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A Q&A session and delicious
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"Lots of people have these devices
to help them manage their busy lives. LDS Media wants to adapt LDS content to
these new trends in
mobility. And if 270 titles aren't enough,
LDS PDA Library customers who also own LDS Collectors
Library (a separate
product LDS Media produced with Deseret Book last November) can export any of
the 3,300 books, talks, reports and other works included in the LDS Collectors
Library for use
on their PDA.celtic scriptures
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and a wide assortment of web icons.
"Today's
readers find stimulation in video games, television, movies and
MTV and often have a hard time cracking
open those dull black and white
books," explains Rimm.
Rimm's award-winning first book, "Goodbye
Gutenberg," showed how reading
comprehension skyrocketed among her Bronx high school students using
colorfully designed versions of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Plato and Poe.gorenaissance. Infobase Media
makes valuable text, audio and video content,
in every field of human knowledge, available in digital
format.
Other content providers include Brigham Young University, Excel Entertainment,
Litchfield
Associates, Prime Recording, Sounds of Zion, and Sound Concepts
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"Our goal is to take advantage
of all of this existing and emerging
technology to make church materials, in both audio and text
formats, more
readily available to church members wherever they are," Ericson says.
LDS Media
products can be found at LDSAudio.com(TM), Infobase Media is a private company
funded by private
investors.scriptures practices
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distributed by Executive Books (www.
"We want every overworked LDS mother
and father to be able to catch
glimpses of heaven throughout the day.saints history
Bronx teacher and award
-winning
designer Ruth Rimm will unveil the world's first computer illuminated Bible
at Community
Bible Church in Ossining, NY, on Saturday, September 24th at
7:30 pm. "This new visual format is
a way of inviting readers
to open their Bibles and explore the Word of God, while retaining all the
advantages of a printed book. He explains that
members are increasingly using "gadgets" like
cell phones and MP3 players as
they go about their daily routines.religious spirituality
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Dozens of pages from her
Bible can be viewed online at
http://www. For more information, call Pat Cook or Martin Rimm at 914
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com (for the LDS Collectors Library line
of products), Deseret Book and other LDS bookstores
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According to Doug Smith, President and CEO of LDS Media, one of the
company's goals
is to make religious content as readily accessible as secular
materials, both for study and for entertainment
. LDS Media just released its newest product, LDS PDA Library,
a gospel library of more than 270
volumes of books and talks for people using
Palm or pocket PC devices.com, a site where people can
purchase downloads of popular LDS books, talks, and music in digital MP3
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the LDS market. Deseret Book
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are available at www. This new library contains more than double the
number of titles that were
included in the largest of previously available
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About LDS Media
Founded in 2004 LDS Media is a division of Infobase Media Corp.
Contact:
Jim Ericson, VP Marketing
(801) 437-9691
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of Matthew Beautifully Designed For the Internet Age"
is published by The Global Renaissance Society
(www. Families face the increasing demands of hectic work and family
schedules leaving them little
time to seek inspiration or for personal study.
Now we're enabling them to fill them with quality
, uplifting content," Smith
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The multimedia unveiling is part of the Christianity & Culture series
sponsored by Community
Bible Church, 301 Chadeayne Road, Ossining, NY
10562.
The increasing use of MP3 players and
PDAs demonstrates how audio and text
content is becoming more mobile. The LDS Media Network includes
LDSAudio.com
as well as the LDS Audio Listener's Library of digital audio titles on CD ROM.scriptures saints
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