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Advantage Archives LLC
Founded2018(4 years ago) (2018)
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Chris Donohue (co-founder and chief financial officer)
Jeffrey Kiley (co-founder and chief operating officer)
Website https://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]

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