Advantage Archives
{{short description|Microfilm digitization business based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Advantage Archives LLC
| logo =
| foundation = {{start date and age|2018|p=yes}}
| founders =
| location_city = 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://www.advantagearchives.com/
}}
Advantage Archives LLC is a digital archiving service based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. Established in 2018,{{Cite web |title=Advantage Archives LLC |url=https://www.buzzfile.com/business/Advantage-Preservation-855-303-2727 |access-date=2022-07-22 |website=www.buzzfile.com |language=en-us}} it digitizes microform, newspapers, books and documents.{{Cite web |last=Codjoe |first=Ellis |date=2022-09-16 |title=Ottumwa Public Library Receives Another Grant for Project |url=https://ottumwaradio.com/ottumwa-public-library-receives-another-grant-for-project/ |access-date=2022-09-23 |website=Ottumwa Radio |language=en-US}} 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,{{Cite web |title=Library Newspaper Archives Now Digitized {{!}} City of Ottumwa, Iowa |url=https://www.ottumwa.us/news/library_newspaper_archives_now_digitized/ |access-date=2022-07-22 |website=www.ottumwa.us}}{{Cite web |title=Genealogy Collection :: Eldora Public Library |url=https://www.eldora.lib.ia.us/services/genealogy-collection |access-date=2022-07-22 |website=www.eldora.lib.ia.us}}{{Cite web |title=Early Grinnell Newspapers Now Online |url=https://drakelibrary.org/early-grinnell-newspapers-now-online/ |access-date=2022-07-22 |language=en-US}} using American National Standards Institute to achieve an expected preservation threshold of five hundred years.{{Cite web |title=FAQs |url=https://www.advantagearchives.com/faqs/ |access-date=2022-07-22 |website=Advantage Archives |language=en-US}}
The company was co-founded by Chris Donohue and Jeffrey Kiley. Donohue is its chief financial officer and Kiley its chief operating officer.{{Cite web |title=Our Team |url=https://www.advantagearchives.com/our-team/ |access-date=2022-07-22 |website=Advantage Archives |language=en-US}}
Its office is at 1025 33rd Avenue SW in Cedar Rapids. The company is a division of Advantage Preservation, itself a division of Advantage Companies.{{Cite web |last=Mills |first=Lauren |title=Newspapers Piling Up Since 2009 While State Historical Society Decides How To Preserve Them |url=https://www.iowawatch.org/2015/03/12/newspapers-piling-up-since-2009-while-state-historical-society-decides-how-to-preserve-them/ |access-date=2022-07-22 |website=IowaWatch |language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Munson |first=Kyle |title=Saving 12 million pages of Iowa newspaper history is hard. Seeing it all online may be harder. |url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/columnists/kyle-munson/2017/02/17/saving-12-million-pages-iowa-newspaper-history-hard-seeing-all-online-may-harder/97978942/ |access-date=2022-07-22 |website=The Des Moines Register |language=en-US}}