Company:Advantage Archives
| 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/ |
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]
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Advantage Archives LLC" (in en-us). https://www.buzzfile.com/business/Advantage-Preservation-855-303-2727.
- ↑ Codjoe, Ellis (2022-09-16). "Ottumwa Public Library Receives Another Grant for Project" (in en-US). https://ottumwaradio.com/ottumwa-public-library-receives-another-grant-for-project/.
- ↑ "Library Newspaper Archives Now Digitized | City of Ottumwa, Iowa". https://www.ottumwa.us/news/library_newspaper_archives_now_digitized/.
- ↑ "Genealogy Collection :: Eldora Public Library". https://www.eldora.lib.ia.us/services/genealogy-collection.
- ↑ "Early Grinnell Newspapers Now Online" (in en-US). https://drakelibrary.org/early-grinnell-newspapers-now-online/.
- ↑ "FAQs" (in en-US). https://www.advantagearchives.com/faqs/.
- ↑ "Our Team" (in en-US). https://www.advantagearchives.com/our-team/.
- ↑ Mills, Lauren. "Newspapers Piling Up Since 2009 While State Historical Society Decides How To Preserve Them" (in en-US). https://www.iowawatch.org/2015/03/12/newspapers-piling-up-since-2009-while-state-historical-society-decides-how-to-preserve-them/.
- ↑ Munson, Kyle. "Saving 12 million pages of Iowa newspaper history is hard. Seeing it all online may be harder." (in en-US). https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/columnists/kyle-munson/2017/02/17/saving-12-million-pages-iowa-newspaper-history-hard-seeing-all-online-may-harder/97978942/.
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