Company:Heritage Microfilm
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| Founded | 1997 |
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| Founders | Cristopher Gill |
| Headquarters | Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
Heritage Microfilm, Inc. (est. 1997) is a preservation microfilm and microfilm digitization business located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.[1]
History
In 1999, Heritage Microfilm began digitizing newspaper microfilm and launched NewspaperArchive. Soon after, it began creating smaller "branded" newspaper archive websites in collaboration with publishing partners.
NewspaperArchive
NewspaperArchive is a commercial online database of digitized newspapers launched in 1999 by Heritage Microfilm,[2] which claims to be the world's largest newspaper archive.[3]
Criticism
In a 2005 Association of College and Research Libraries paper, Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. expressed concern about the extent of Heritage Microfilm's involvement with stewardship of historical resources otherwise assumed to be held in the public trust. Reilly wrote, "until 2002, the Library of Congress and the Center for Research Libraries regularly microfilmed the principal daily newspaper of Jamaica, The Gleaner. In 2002 the Gleaner Publishing Company executed an agreement with Heritage Microfilm, Inc. giving to the for-profit firm exclusive rights to reformat and distribute The Gleaner, in both microform and digital format. Because Heritage now holds exclusive digital rights the agreement effectively shifts control of back files to the commercial sector, where it is marketed primarily for genealogists and family history researchers."[4]
See also
- Microdot
- Microphotograph
- Microprinting
- Newspapers.com
References
- ↑ Iowa Secretary of State. "Heritage Microfilm, Inc.". Business Entities. http://sos.iowa.gov/search/business/(S(qerjzgzfwbv300b23c4rl13t))/summary.aspx.
- ↑ Heritage Archives, Inc.. "About Us". Newspaperarchive.com. https://newspaperarchive.com/about-us.aspx.
- ↑ Heritage Archives Inc.. "Newspaperarchive.com". 855 Wright Bros. Blvd., Cedar Rapids, Iowa. https://newspaperarchive.com/.
- ↑ Bernard F. Reilly Jr. (2005). "Knowledge Biodiversity: The Perilous Economics of World News Heritage Materials". Association of College and Research Libraries, 2005 national conference. American Library Association. http://www.ala.org/acrl/conferences/confsandpreconfs/national/05titleindex.
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