His Dream: A Look Back At The Life Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On Monday the nation took time to reflect on the impact the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King...
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Thanks to a grant from the South Central Regional Library Council, the Seymour Library has partnered with Advantage Preservation to microfilm and digitize 1,600 pages and 53 rolls of microfilm...
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Advantage Community History Archive: Digital newspapers available via Morton James Public Library site (NE) 0 Nebraska historians and genealogists have a new resource available as the Morton-James Public Library completed...
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Advantage Community History Archive: Sudbury library embarks on digitizing newspaper microfilm 0 The Goodnow Library of Sudbury, Massachusetts hopes to partner with Advantage Preservation to digitize its collection of the...
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Advantage Community History Archive: From Fort Fairfield to Shanghai 1 Stirling Fessenden was an American lawyer who practiced in Shanghai. He was the chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council from...
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Advantage Spotlight: Ann Tice 0 Page 1 of The Klemme Times, published in Klemme, Iowa on Thursday, October 26th, 1899 Ann Tice is an avid genealogist currently living near Ann...
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Discover Your Rural Roots! Carol Richey looks at Advantage Preservation and their growing collection of digitized small town and rural newspapers 0 Researching your rural ancestors in newspaper collections is...
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Advantage Preservation: Echoes of Elmwood's history now captured online (NE) 0 An Advantage Preservation project was in the news this week as the Fremont Tribune of Fremont, Nebraska published an...
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Advantage Preservation: Library launches digital archive of historic newspapers 0 The launch of the Cranston Public Library digital archive was featured in the Cranston Herald this week. The Cranston Public...
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Advantage Preservation:Visiting With Our Friends In Massachusetts Pictured above: Grant Kaestner (left), & Jeffrey Kiley (right), of Advantage Preservation on their visit to the Newburyport Public Library in Newburyport MA,...
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Advantage Preservation: Lincoln County News & Skidompha Partner to Digitize Newspaper Archives 0 The Lincoln County News and Skidompha Public Library of Damariscotta, Maine are working together to fund a...
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Advantage Preservation: National Family History Month: Tools To Help You Find Out About Your Background 0 October is National Family History Month and there is nothing we love more than...
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Advantage Preservation: Syracuse & Nebraska City Library Hosts Digitization of Newspapers 0 An Advantage Preservation project was featured in the Nebraska City News-Press yesterday, highlighting recently completed digitization and access...
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Same Team, Same Mission... New Name Advantage Archives, CFO - Chris Donohue We are excited to share some news! The Advantage Preservation and Advantage Information Management Solutions divisions of The...
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Initial fundraising goal for newspaper digitization project reached 0 The York News-Times of Nebraska published an article yesterday highlighting the efforts of Fillmore County libraries to raise funds to...
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Dover (New Hampshire) High School yearbooks are now available online thanks to the Dover Public…
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Luther's Preus Library and Winneshiek County Historical Society awarded grant to digitize County newspapers 0 Luther College's Preus Library and the Winneshiek County Historical Society have been awarded a $30,000...
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McGregor Historical Museum working to digitize North Iowa Times 0 The Clayton County Register: McGregor Historical Museum working to digitize North Iowa Times An article published yesterday in the Clayton...
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Iowa City Public Library launches an online archive of historic Iowa City newspapers 0 The Iowa City Public Library was featured in the Little Village Magazine this week for the...
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Advantage Preservation: Caribou library archives date back to late 19th century (Caribou, Maine) 0 An Advantage Preservation project is in the news this week as The County, hub for the...
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Advantage Preservation: Chattanooga Historical Newspapers Now Online 0 The Chattanoogan.com detailed a recent Advantage Preservation project to put over 6,000 pages of historical Chattanooga newspapers online and accessible at chattanooganewspapers.org....
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Advantage Preservation: On a July 4 Long Ago (North Platte, NE) 0 The North Platte Telegraph of North Platte, Nebraska looked back at a "July 4 Long Ago" using the...
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Advantage Preservation: Biddeford history more accessible than ever (Maine) 0 Biddeford history is more accessible than ever thanks to the McArthur Public Library's project with Advantage to digitize and provide...
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Advantage Preservation: James V. Brown Library looks to digitize 2 centuries of microfilm (PA) 0 An article featured in the Sun-Gazette of Williamsport, PA outlined the James V. Brown Library's...
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Advantage Preservation: The American Spy 0 The American Spy Newspaper from Troy, New York has been digitized. The American Spy can be found on the Troy Public Library Digital Archive...
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Advantage Preservation: Cranston Library Launches Digital Historic Newspaper Archive 0 The launch of the Cranston Public Library digital archive was featured in the Cranston Patch yesterday. The Advantage Preservation project...
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Cascade Library Celebrates 50 Years 0 The Cascade Public Library is celebrating it's 50th anniversary, recognizing the years of support of and access to knowledge, entertainment, community engagement and literacy....
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Nevada Library to digitize old issues of the community’s 124-year-old newspaper 0 The Nevada Iowa Journal announced the authorization by publisher GateHouse Iowa to allow Advantage Preservation to digitize the...
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Advantage Preservation: Christmas Comes Early For Digitized Newspapers In Chattanooga 0 A new Advantage Preservation project was featured in The Chattanoogan yesterday as we have partnered with David Moon and...
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Advantage Preservation: Paulding Library Launches Digital Newspaper and School Yearbook Site 0 The launch of the Paulding County Carnegie Library online newspaper and school yearbook archive was featured in The...
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Commercial-News Details Genealogy Hunt (Illinois) 0 Advantage Preservation was recently featured in the Commercial News of Danville, Illinois as they detailed the "genealogy hunt" and genealogical materials helpful to their...
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Apply for Funding for Your History Project Grant Program for Historical Resources of Iowa 0 "Everywhere you look, Iowans are investing in arts, history and cultural projects that create job...
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The American Spy & Frothingham’s Long Island Herald (New York) 0 Advantage is excited to be adding several new titles from the state of New York in the coming weeks...
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Griswold Public Library Open House Saturday, March 24th 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 0 A recent Advantage Preservation project will be on display on Saturday, March 24th at the Griswold...
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Amesbury Library Offers Digital Trip Through Time Amesbury Public Library 0 The Amesbury Public Library and Advantage Preservation were featured in The Daily News of Newburyport, Massachusetts this week for the...
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Local History Is Just A Click Away Wayne County Public Library 0 Local history is now just a click away for residents of Monticello, Kentucky as the Wayne County Public...
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HRDP Grant Program for Historical Resources of Iowa Grant Applications Due in April and May 0 The HRDP grant program was put in place to provide funds to preserve, conserve,...
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Advantage Preservation: Commerce Library Completes Major Digitization Project 1 An Advantage Preservation project was featured in The Commerce Journal of Greenville, Texas last week highlighting our recently completed digitization project...
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Iowa Newspaper Association Convention 2018 0 Advantage will be attending the Iowa Newspaper Association 2018 Convention & Trade Show Thursday and Friday, February 1 - February 2 at the Marriott...
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Advantage Preservation: Paulding County Carnegie Library Newspaper Digitization Project (Ohio) 0 Thanks to a generous donation from the Paulding County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, Advantage was able to...
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Advantage Preservation: Why Digitize Historic Content? 0 Historical newspapers and documents provide the first draft of our communities history and they not only need to be preserved, but made easily...
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Advantage Preservation: Durant Democrat Being Preserved for Future Generations 0 Advantage Preservation has partnered with the Donald W. Reynolds Library in Durant, Oklahoma to digitize the Durant Daily Democrat and...
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Advantage Preservation: Bossard to Offer Digital Newspapers Online Advantage Preservation is pleased to announce the completion of a recent project with the Bossard Memorial Library of Gallipolis, Ohio to digitize...
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0 Take a stroll down memory lane as we look back at the best from Advantage and our partners in 2017! Happy New Year from Advantage Archives. 12 Million Pages...
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The IAHistory Project: Washington County 0 Advantage Preservation is pleased to announce an exciting development in the IAHistory Project as we further our collaborative effort to preserve valuable state history....
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Advantage Preservation was featured in The Citizen last week, a daily newspaper based in Auburn, New York. The article in The Citizen outlined a recent Advantage Preservation project to digitize...
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An interesting and fairly unique piece of history is in the Advantage offices. The Biddeford Weekly Journal broadsheets measure in at approximately 31” x 23”, making it one of the...
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Advantage will be attending the 72nd annual Iowa Association of School Boards Convention from November 15-17 at the Iowa Events Center in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Stop by our booth...
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A directory of the Advantage Preservation hosted Community History Archives is now available online! Search historical newspapers from over 450 different collections in 38 different states. Publishers, libraries and historical...
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An Advantage Preservation project was in the spotlight last week as The Commerce Journal of…
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The Advantage Companies is a NAID AAA Certified Information Destruction Service Provider located in Cedar…
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Advantage Preservation has partnered with the Ansonia Historical Commission and Ansonia Library of Connecticut on…
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Advantage Preservation is pleased to be continuing our work with the State Historical Society of Iowa to preserve Iowa’s newspaper history. Currently, we are working to preserve the more than...
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Advantage Preservation is pleased to announce the addition of the Ida Grove Public Library as a new account. The Ida Grove Public Library was established in 1908 and has grown...
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An Advantage Preservation project was featured recently in Nebraska’s Sidney Sun-Telegraph, as Sidney Public Library’s digital archive was made available and was “met with instant success”. The text searchable online...
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Thanks to a recent Historical Resource Development Grant from the State Historical Society of Iowa,…
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Within the past year, The Advantage Companies have provided conversion services to over 25 Iowa…
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There is a lot to learn from old newspapers if you know what you are looking for. Before the advent of the Internet, it was newspapers that were relied on...
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The Cedar Rapids Public Library is partnering with The Gazette and Advantage Companies to digitize past issues of The Gazette from 1857 through the present day. “In the past we...
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The plan for a new Advantage Preservation digitization project was outlined in The Sentinel of southwestern New Hampshire on Tuesday. Advantage Preservation will work directly with the Peterborough Town Library...
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A recently completed Advantage Preservation project is in the spotlight this week as the Montgomery Community Media posted an article on the Montgomery County Public Libraries’ digitization of their local...
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An Advantage Preservation Digital Archive was featured in the Boothbay Register of Boothbay Harbor Maine on Sunday. The article provides information on a new program introduced this summer from the...
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Advantage Preservation was featured in a recent article and tribute to a friend of the Brown County Public Library in Mount Sterling, Illinois, who’s family left a “legacy of love”...
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The Preservation filming process includes a Master Negative, Silver Duplicate Negative and Silver Positive Service Copy. We will attempt to outline these different types of film as well as microfilm...
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Our Cedar Rapids, Iowa headquarters is a 76,000 square foot facility purpose-built for microfilm storage and meets ANSI (American National Standards Institute), NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) and AIIM (Association...
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Wheeling Newspapers are now available in a searchable digital format! Advantage Preservation is now digitizing the microfilmed versions of the Wheeling News-Register and The Intelligencer newspapers for the Ohio County...
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Advantage Preservation was in the news last month for a recent project to digitize war-era newspaper records for the Sentinel-Tribune of Bowling Green, Ohio. Debbie Rogers of the Sentinel-Tribune outlined...
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Advantage Preservation has signed on as the sole microfilm provider for the Missoula Missoulian, Montana's 3rd largest Newspaper! Advantage Preservation is happy to announce this partnership as we will be...
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The questions can range from technical to legal to philosophical, but the most common question in nearly every one of these discussions remains: Should newspapers be scanned in bitonal or...
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The Paper Problem: With the newfound ability to assemble content and produce pages quickly and efficiently, existing papers increased their circulation numbers substantially. The demand for the paper on which...
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Despite achieving the means to print in mass quantities, the publishing industry’s productivity was largely constrained by the need to set type by hand. By 1880, the Linotype Printing machine...
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Making Old Newspapers Searchable: The History of Printing Until the first part of the 19th century, the composition and typesetting were accomplished by painstakingly placing each individual letter into...
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Making Old Newspapers Searchable: The Beginning The newspaper industry in the United States has evolved considerably over the last 300 years. Each development in the typesetting methods, printing process,...
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The Advantage Companies was highlighted in the Kewanne, Illinois Star Courier for working directly with the Kewanee Historical Society, Henry County Genealogical Society and Kewanee Public Library to digitize over...
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Copyright Following the recent announcement of our partnership with the State Historical Society of Iowa, we have outlined our mission to microfilm and provide digital access to more than 12...
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On February 15th, 2017 the Iowa Department Of Cultural Affairs announced a plan to preserve more than 12 million pages of historical Iowa newspapers. We at Advantage Archives are proud...
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I grew up watching my grandma spend HOURS “doing her work”. Her “work” was sitting at a table with our family tree, scrapbooks of old photos, and clippings of old...
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DES MOINES – The process to save the first draft of Iowa history just got a lot smoother. The State Historical Society of Iowa today unveiled a sweeping new plan...
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Advantage Preservation is a division of Advantage Archives and as a Cedar Rapids based business we take an active interest in historical preservation projects in the state of Iowa. Advantage...
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Research just got much, much easier thanks to newspaper preservation project For those who have not yet heard, the Oakland Public Library recently completed a project to have back issues...
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The historic newspaper archives of the Eddyville Advertiser, Eddyville Free Press, Eddyville Star, Eddyville Signal, and the Eddyville Tribune are now available online. This article from the Oskaloosa Herald: offers...
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In a recent article published in the Ottumwa Courier: The story of how the Friends of the Eddyville Public Library have made it possible to now search old Eddyville newspapers...
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Library Director Kristin Baumann, says The Block Island Collection including more than just The Block Island Times. It holds old town records, books, voting lists, hotel brochures, school yearbooks, post...
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The Queen Anne’s County Library in Centreville has made it possible to view historical newspapers on your computer. The historical archives of the Bay Times and Record Observer are now...
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Thanks to the efforts of the Southworth Library, you can now find newspapers from the Dryden Weekly Herald, Dryden Weekly News, Rumsey’s Companion, and the Dryden News online. With papers...
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Bozeman High alumni, family genealogists, social historians and others will find a wealth of information now that roughly 80 years of back issues of the high school newspaper have been...
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The Peabody Gazette-Bulletin was known at different times by different names. At one point the Peabody Gazette-Herald became the Gazette Bulletin. Then it was known as the Peabody Gazette, and...
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The article published by Jack Shaum makes for a very interesting read for librarians, historians, students, and…. actually, anyone who cares about the preservation and accessibility of local history. The...
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Tricia Carzoli wrote an article about the project entered in to by the Harvard Diggins Library to make local history more accessible. The Harvard Herald (and the different iterations of...
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Neligh Public Library has made things much easier to look up information in old newspapers. Director Jennifer Norton talks about the digital archives In an article found here. Norton said...
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The mission of the Jerome Journal is quite clearly stated on their website: “To collect, save and share information, pictures and documents about the history and families of Jerome, Lincoln...
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DeManda McGowen wrote an article for the Neligh Press about the efforts of Neligh Public Library to create online access to Neligh newspapers from 1879 to 2013. In DeManda’s article,...
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Barb Arland-Fye wrote an article for The Catholic Messenger highlighting a project to provide “Free and easy access available to Catholic history”. Barb’s article can be found here: Of note:...
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In an article published in the Daily Iowegian, talks a bit about the affordability of the solution provided by Advantage Preservation. The cost of the digitization of all of the...
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The Jefferson Public Library is currently converting microfilm containing newspapers from 1866 -1977 into a digital, online format. You can read more about it here: Jefferson Library Director Jane Millard...
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Louise Gunderson Shimon wrote a very informative piece that outlines the challenges and frustration that Rolfe Public Library faced in trying to get 101 years of their history digitized and...
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Shaun Kirby recently wrote an article for the NK Standard Times about the project by North Kingstown Public Library to provide access to historical editions of The Standard Times’ dating...
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A project to digitize the entire historical collection of the Mapleton Press has been completed, giving the people of Mapleton, Iowa a full newspaper record of the history of their...
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Advantage Preservation was selected by the Clinton Public Library to digitize the corpus of defunct newspapers from the Lyons and Clinton communities from 1856-1927. Using microfilm currently housed at the...
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This article in the Iowa City Press Citizen shares the story of a consortium formed by eight non-profit organizations and their mission to preserve and provide access to local Iowa...
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When I opened the article in the Bee Herald titled “Jefferson Public Library Project Puts 138 Years Of Microfilm Online”, I expected to read an article about the project to...
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The Friends of the Oneida Public Library helping The Oneida Public Library unlock history. The library has begun a long-term project to digitize its microfilm collection of 19th century Oneida...
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Thanks to the Monroe County Iowa Foundation and a joint effort between the Monroe County Genealogical Society and Monroe County Historical Society, Monroe County history is now much more accessible....
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Shawn Shinneman recently wrote an article about the work done by Harvard Diggins Library to create access to 120 years of microfilm newspapers previously only available on microfilm: "It's so...
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Cari Colby posted this article earlier this year about a project driven by the Margaret Jones Public Library to digitize over 128 years of Worth County newspapers. Advantage Preservation worked with...
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Central College has partnered with Advantage Preservation to preserve more than 125 years of history through its student newspaper and yearbook. The original copies had begun to crumble, but the...
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Advantage Preservation has been engaged to provide microfilm digitization service to the Toulon Public Library and bring new pages to their archive. Recently added to the archive are pages from...
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Another exciting project Advantage is proud to be a part of has been helping the Bridgton Public Library bring the historical archives of the Bridgton News to the public. Details...
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Issues of the Huron/Erie County Reporter newspapers from 1880 to 1994 have been digitized by Advantage Preservation, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa based company with a focus on historical newspaper preservation....
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The Village Library of Morris has made a number of pages of the Morris Chronicle newspaper, pages of the Otsego Chronicle, and records of the Zion Church are now available...
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Advantage Preservation is working with the Henry Public Library on digitizing the newspaper microfilm in their collection. Microfilming serves as the standard practice for the preservation of newspaper content, but...
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Advantage Preservation was selected by the Way Library to digitize its microfilm collection of newspapers. The library sees this as a “tremendous advancement over the microfilm”, and says as much...
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Advantage Preservation, a division of the Cedar Rapids Iowa based Advantage Companies has been the working with the Bridgton Public Library to make the historical archive of the Bridgton News...
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The Carnegie Public Library has contracted with Advantage Preservation to digitize the Review, and make these newspapers dating back to 2007 available online. We have started having The Review digitized...
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The Toledo Blade, posted an article about the archive the Swanton Public Library worked with Advantage Preservation to create. The Swanton Public Library has digitized its microfilm collection of The...
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Advantage Preservation is working with the Katonah Village Library to provide access to the local community’s unique history. The Katonah Village Library began to digitize its 48 microfilm reels of...
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Jane Millard, the library director Of Jefferson Public Library starts her article for Iowa Living Magazines, with a series of questions. The questions she asks appears random in nature, yet...
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Amy Christensen shares that “the Library is thrilled to announce the availability of a new online historical research tool free for anyone who has access to the Internet.” Advantage Preservation...
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On April 19, 2014, “Jean”, It transcribes a newspaper article posted in the Presque Isle, Maine newspaper, Star Herald, Feb. 13, 1919 and is signed at the end of the...
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Advantage Preservation was selected by the New Cazenovia Library to help provide digital access to over 200 years of history, previously only available on microfilm. Jason Emerson wrote an excellent...
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This excerpt from an article posted by The Rolfe Library makes some very good points about the OCR and challenges faced in searching for specific content on historical newspapers found...
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In 2015 the Advantage Preservation team worked hand-in-hand with our partners at the Vernon Parish Library to provide digital access to their newspaper microfilm collection. The goal was to make...
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Advantage Preservation has recently had the privilege of partnering with the Mary Cotton Public Library to help increase and simplify access to their community history. By providing digital access to...
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Advantage Preservation was featured in a recent article of the Seward County Independent for our work with the Seward Memorial Library to convert 243 reels of microfilm into a searchable...
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Advantage Preservation was recently featured in The Pantagraph, a central Illinois publication, for the completion of a microfilm digitization project to create access to the Atlanta Argus Newspaper. The Atlanta...
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Local and specialized libraries, genealogical and historical societies, and avid genealogists are almost always long…
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Predicting the future has always been a tough gig, but never more so than in…
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We’ve heard the same story again and again from our clients: they start a document…
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed,…
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As the 2014 midterm election campaigns for state and national office drag on, plenty of…
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Libraries, academic institutions, state historical societies, and genealogical groups all share a vital mission –…
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Organizing the History of the World Why do libraries exist? At the most basic level,…
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Here’s some sticker shock for you. If you wish to order just one copy of…
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We have had many recent conversations with librarians, newspaper publishers and state entities who are…
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We have had many recent conversations with librarians, newspaper publishers and state entities who are…
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Riddle me this: Three frogs are sitting on a lily pad and one of them…
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You think you did everything you reasonably could to get your supplies at the most…
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The Age Old Question in Historical Preservation Microfilm vs. Digitization: One Libraries Answer Since the…
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Yes, We Still Need Microfilm! Preserving Our History for Future Generations I’m have often been…
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Justification for document scanning services may involve many factors; some are easy to quantify in…
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Bitonal or Grayscale? The Great Newspaper Digitization Debate Rages On: In the world of…
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Money Can’t Buy Me Love – so sang The Beatles 50 years ago and apparently,…
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Your best customer calls and asks a question about an order placed three years ago….
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How do you maximize profits in today’s tough economic environment? For the last several years, cost cutting, even if it increased operational risks, was the answer. However, today many manufacturers...
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Have you really looked at your manufacturing records management processes recently to see how it…
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Manufacturing can be a high-risk business – you take on all the risk up front…
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No matter the size, no matter how many or few offices a corporation may have,…
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Matt Krautstrunk over at Ecopreneurist wrote an interesting article on May 12th, discussing how an effective…
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Posted on May 4, 2011 by Virginia Pierce In The South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program Blog - This fun cigarette advertising campaign for Sovereign Cigarettes, which personified a cigarette as a southern child of good breeding and...
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Justification for document scanning services may involve many factors; some are easy to quantify in…
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As a pilot in the Strategic Air Command during the mid-1950s and in the Iowa National Air Guard in the 1960s, I learned a great deal about quality control. There...
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Below is a link to an article for a Digitization Project we are working on for The Appanoose County Historical Society. It summarizes the project from their initial concept in...
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