Northeast Document Conservation Center

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The Northeast Document Conservation Center was founded in 1973 as a reaction to the growing problem of paper deterioration occurring in repositories in the New England area. Since its inception, the Center has provided institutions and organizations, as well as librarians, conservators, preservationists, and museum professionals, with help in learning proper care and procedures to better preserve the integrity of their collections. They provide a variety of services such as imaging, surveys and consultations, digitations, as well as disaster planning and assistance. Their educational opportunities include the provision of workshops, conferences, and specialized trainings. Additional online courses are available, as well. Some of the workshops include basic preservation, collections care, emergency preparedness, integrated pest management (IPM), identification and care of photographs, basic and intermediate book repair, basic paper repair, preservation of scrapbooks, preservation technologies, holdings maintenance, creating and maintaining digital collections (digital preservation), scanning training, and grant writing.

One of the educational programs that NEDCC provides is the School for Scanning. Started in 1995, it targets a large audience of not only librarians and archivists, but also administrators, museum professionals, and IT professionals. Within 10 years, it has begun to reflect the growth of digitization infrastructure^[1]. It also focuses on topics such as copyright, media longevity, and descriptive metadata.