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:// advantagearchives / |
Advantage Archives LLCis adigital archivingservice based inCedar Rapids, Iowa,United States. Established in 2018,[1]it digitizesmicroform,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]usingAmerican National Standards Instituteto achieve an expected preservation threshold of five hundred years.[6]
The company was co-founded by Chris Donohue and Jeffrey Kiley. Donohue is itschief financial officerand Kiley itschief 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 theState Historical Society of Iowain 2017 to digitize over twelve million pages of newspapers, the earliest being from the 1830s, around fifteen years prior to statehood.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ab"Advantage Archives LLC".buzzfile.Retrieved22 July2022.
- ^Codjoe, Ellis (16 September 2022)."Ottumwa Public Library Receives Another Grant for Project".Ottumwa Radio.Retrieved23 September2022.
- ^"Library Newspaper Archives Now Digitized | City of Ottumwa, Iowa".ottumwa.us.Retrieved22 July2022.
- ^"Genealogy Collection:: Eldora Public Library".eldora.lib.ia.us.Retrieved22 July2022.
- ^"Early Grinnell Newspapers Now Online".Retrieved22 July2022.
- ^"FAQs".Advantage Archives.Retrieved22 July2022.
- ^"Our Team".Advantage Archives.Retrieved22 July2022.
- ^Mills, Lauren."Newspapers Piling Up Since 2009 While State Historical Society Decides How To Preserve Them".IowaWatch.Retrieved22 July2022.
- ^Munson, Kyle."Saving 12 million pages of Iowa newspaper history is hard. Seeing it all online may be harder".The Des Moines Register.Retrieved22 July2022.