Our Services
We Offer Quality Archival Services for Your Community
Our Services
Old or new, we offer solutions for the past, present, & future of your documents.
Get Started!Digital Archive Hosting
When converting your archive to digital format, we host your file on a secure domain that is accessible to your community. This makes your communities archive accessible and incredibly user-friendly. You will find yourself using your archives much more frequently with this wonderful and user-friendly tool!
Document Digitization
The content contained on paper documents gives a firsthand account of the and informs our perspective of history, that shaped not only your community, but also your state, and the nation…from a local perspective. Although historical newspaper imaging is our specialty, we have an equal passion for all historic documents, including vital records, family bibles, transcripts, journals, and more. All documents and fragile papers are evaluated and processed to assure proper care and accurate conversion. Our experience covers a broad range of document types from a few days, a few years, or even 200 years ago. All phases of the archival document imaging process, such as preparation, document scanning, document indexing, etc., are managed effectively by the experienced team at Advantage. We work closely with our clients through the entire lifecycle of the project utilizing proven project management and preservation methodologies.
Document Preservation
The history recorded in the documents from communities across the country is invaluable. Newspapers, atlases, almanacs, personal journals, directories, government documents…and even yearbooks can put historical events in perspective, and allow us to view those events through the lens of someone who was there and witnessed “history as it happened”. It also allows us to connect to our past in a real and tangible way. This cultural asset must be protected and preserved so future generations can have access to the documents that would otherwise be lost to the erosion of time if they remained on fragile paper. The only true way to ensure its survival is through microfilming.
Information Management Solutions
Historical preservation is far from our only area of expertise! Our dedicated commercial document imaging solution division AdvantageIMS is dedicated to providing solutions for more documents critical to your business or organization. Archiving and retrieving information may not be your core competency. It is ours. We provide solutions tailored to your specific requirements. Advantage Archives commercial division has provided document management solutions for many years. We pride ourselves in our understanding of business documents and their impact on your bottom line. We listen to your needs and requirements and design a solution specific to your company and its clients.
Microfilm Digitization
Microfilm digitization is the key to unlocking content that is not currently accessible in a practical way. Creating a digital archive is a powerful tool that will save time by searching through a community’s history by name, date range, keywords, publication, or location. Advantage Archives offers a budget-friendly digital solution, and an easy-to-use content delivery system to materials via our Community History Archives hosted search portals.
Digitization Of Historical Books And Bound Volumes
Digitization Of Historical Books And Bound Volumes
Our advanced imaging equipment, innovative post-processing methodologies, and years of experience ensure that the content contained in your history books, journals, bound newspaper volumes, ledgers, scrapbooks, and other collated paper documents is never lost to age, deterioration, fading, ripped, and torn pages, broken bindings, or skin oils and other contaminants. It allows for practical online access to this valuable content. The original, alongside microfilm or a different preservation plan, can be treated as the preservation copy, ensuring the range has a future.
Digitization Of Yearbooks And Annuals
Digitizing yearbooks creates a portal to your community’s past! Alumni, genealogists, or anyone that is looking to relive their youth can search and browse the faces, names, and memories contained in the pages of your community’s school yearbooks. When paired with other materials such as newspapers, or city directories, memories can be unlocked as to what was happening during those years at school. It becomes such a powerful and essential tool to help connect your community.
Digitization Of Photographic Materials
Digitization ensures that your photographs, negatives, or slides can be viewed anytime, anywhere, from any device, allowing you to relive those moments in the community through pictures of the people, places, and events that shaped your community and will enable you to share those moments with others. Once digitized, the original copy is to be tucked away and stored to keep in pristine condition and allows the image to be shown to all that want to see it.
Digitization Of Maps, Atlases, And Land Records
Our purpose-built, high-resolution large format scanners and our sophisticated two-camera digital imaging systems allow us to capture your maps and other large-format documents, as well as historical atlases, land records, plats, or other bound volumes in a non-destructive manner, providing the best possible image quality. Doing so ensures that these large records can be converted over to a much more portable and easily searchable format, which will make the time looking for certain plots, locations, statistics, or figures much more accessible and will save you time and money in the long run.
Testimonials
Don't Just Take Our Word For It...
Debbie
Zack Kucharski
Cedar Rapids Gazette Executive Editor
Cynthia Jennings
Library Director at the Old Town Public Library
Karen Sutera
The Harvard Diggins Library Director
Diane Pamel
Southworth Public Library Director
Michelle Setlik
Hall County Historical Society Board Member
Fr. McDaniel
Retired History Professor of St. Ambrose University, Davenport
Andy Sherman
Director of The Anna Storm Memorial Library
Angela Scales
Library Director of The Ida Grove Library
Debbie Saunders
Director of the Bossard Memorial Library
Susan Pieper
Library Director
Shanna Speer
Nevada Library Director
Erin Horst
Materials Manager at the Cedar Rapids Public Library
Debbie Stanton
Washington Public Library Director
Lisa Powell Williams
Adult/Young Adult Services Coordinator, Moline Public Library
Zack Kucharski
Cedar Rapids Gazette Executive Editor
Melinda Krick
Editor of The Paulding Progress
Anastasia Weigle
Caribou Public Library Director
Candice Smith
Information Librarian At The Old Town Library
Anne Mangano
Collection Services Coordinator at the Bidford Public Library
Lisa Powell Williams
Adult/Young Adult Services Coordinator, Moline Public Library
Ryan Gjerde
Luther College Preus Library Director
Ann Tice
Supporter And Donor To Community History Projects in the Midwest
Jennifer Gaenzle
Fort Fairfield Public Library Director
Karen Tobin
Assistant Library Director Of The Goodnow Library
Shane Molander
State Historical Society of North Dakota
Sue Gardner
Local History Librarian at the Albert Wisner Public Library
Charlotte Trosclair
Director of the Vermilion Parish Library System
Cathy Beaudoin
Director of the Dover Public Library
Cynthia Jennings
Director at the Old Town Public Library
Scott Schaut
Curator of the Mansfield Memorial Museum
Tim McDuff
Technical Services Preservation Library
Jeanne Triplett
Library Director at the Yuma Public Library District
Alyson Thompson
Library Director at the Marshall Public Library
Joel Shoemaker
Director at Illinois Prairie District Public Library
Lisa Powell Williams
Adult/Young Adult Services Coordinator, Moline Public Library
Michelle Setlik
Hall County Historical Society
Becky Baker
Library Director Of the Seward Memorial Library - Seward, Nebraska
Sue Ayers
Director of the Clyde-Savannah Public Library
Mary Haney
Director of the Hennessey Public Library
Patti Smith
Director - Brimfield Public Library
Shari Minnehan
Director of the Churdan Public Library
Jane Millard
Director of the Jefferson Public
Luann Waldo
Editor of The Scranton Journal
Kimberly Bohnet
Library Director, Paton Library
Amanda Taylor
Director, Concordia Parish Library
Lola Seitz
Director, Pawnee City Public Library - Pawnee City, NE
Becky Baker
Director, Seward Memorial Library - Seward, Nebraska
Sue Ayers
Director, Clyde-Savannah Public Library
Kate Lewis
Director, Carnagie Public Library
Patti Smith
Director, Brimfield Public Library
Jane Millard
Director, Jefferson Public Library
Ruby Coleman
Genealogist
Sarah N.M. Harris
Senior Associate Registrar, University of Iowa
Dawn Thistle - Special Collections Librarian
Gardiner Public Library - Gardiner ME
Sharon Gonzalez
Linn County Treasurer
Mary Haney
Director, Hennessey Public Library