Advantage_Archives

Advantage Archives

Advantage Archives

Microfilm digitization business based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Advantage Archives LLC is a digital archiving service based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. Established in 2018,[1] it digitizes microform, newspapers, books and documents.[2] The results are stored in a community history archive, which is freely accessible. The company works with over five hundred libraries and newspaper publishers in the country,[3][4][5] using American National Standards Institute to achieve an expected preservation threshold of five hundred years.[6]

Quick Facts Founded, Headquarters ...

The company was co-founded by Chris Donohue and Jeffrey Kiley. Donohue is its chief financial officer and Kiley its chief operating officer.[7]

Its office is at 1025 33rd Avenue SW in Cedar Rapids. The company is a division of Advantage Preservation,[1] itself a division of Advantage Companies.[8] Advantage Companies established a partnership with the State Historical Society of Iowa in 2017 to digitize over twelve million pages of newspapers, the earliest being from the 1830s, around fifteen years prior to statehood.[9]

References

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    "Advantage Archives LLC". www.buzzfile.com. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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    Codjoe, Ellis (16 September 2022). "Ottumwa Public Library Receives Another Grant for Project". Ottumwa Radio. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
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    "Library Newspaper Archives Now Digitized | City of Ottumwa, Iowa". www.ottumwa.us. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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    "Genealogy Collection :: Eldora Public Library". www.eldora.lib.ia.us. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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    "Early Grinnell Newspapers Now Online". Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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    "FAQs". Advantage Archives. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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    "Our Team". Advantage Archives. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  8. [8]
    Mills, Lauren. "Newspapers Piling Up Since 2009 While State Historical Society Decides How To Preserve Them". IowaWatch. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  9. [9]
    Munson, Kyle. "Saving 12 million pages of Iowa newspaper history is hard. Seeing it all online may be harder". The Des Moines Register. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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