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]
| Founded | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S. |
Key people | Chris Donohue (co-founder and chief financial officer) Jeffrey Kiley (co-founder and chief operating officer) |
| Website | https://www.advantagearchives.com/ |
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
edit- ^ a b "Advantage Archives LLC". www.buzzfile.com. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ Codjoe, Ellis (16 September 2022). "Ottumwa Public Library Receives Another Grant for Project". Ottumwa Radio. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
- ^ "Library Newspaper Archives Now Digitized | City of Ottumwa, Iowa". www.ottumwa.us. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ "Genealogy Collection :: Eldora Public Library". www.eldora.lib.ia.us. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ "Early Grinnell Newspapers Now Online". Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ "FAQs". Advantage Archives. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ "Our Team". Advantage Archives. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ Mills, Lauren. "Newspapers Piling Up Since 2009 While State Historical Society Decides How To Preserve Them". IowaWatch. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ 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.