Advantage Archives LLC
Founded2018 (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)
Websitehttps://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. 1 2 "Advantage Archives LLC". www.buzzfile.com. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  2. ↑ Codjoe, Ellis (16 September 2022). "Ottumwa Public Library Receives Another Grant for Project". Ottumwa Radio. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
  3. ↑ "Library Newspaper Archives Now Digitized | City of Ottumwa, Iowa". www.ottumwa.us. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  4. ↑ "Genealogy Collection :: Eldora Public Library". www.eldora.lib.ia.us. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  5. ↑ "Early Grinnell Newspapers Now Online". Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  6. ↑ "FAQs". Advantage Archives. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  7. ↑ "Our Team". Advantage Archives. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  8. ↑ Mills, Lauren. "Newspapers Piling Up Since 2009 While State Historical Society Decides How To Preserve Them". IowaWatch. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  9. ↑ Munson, Kyle. "Saving 12 million pages of Iowa newspaper history is hard. Seeing it all online may be harder". The Des Moines Register. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
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