January 22, 2026
ANDOVER, MA — Since 1973, NEDCC has grown from a small regional conservation center into a national leader in cultural heritage preservation.
Our new facility was designed from the ground up to support the work we do every day. Drawing on 52 years of experience, we created a space that improves workflow, enhances flexibility, and sets the stage for our next chapter of growth.
Most importantly, this move gives our skilled staff the environment and tools they need to continue delivering exceptional conservation, preservation, and digital reformatting services. From treating oversize materials and completing large-scale imaging projects to reformatting obsolete audio carriers and leading preservation programs worldwide, this new space fosters collaboration, efficiency, and innovation.
We look forward to welcoming you to our new home! Please visit our Contact page for details.
Sincerely,
Bill Veillette
NEDCC Executive Director
Book, Paper, and Photograph Conservation
Enhanced Treatment Capacity
“NEDCC has long had the expertise and equipment to treat a wide range of materials. Now, we also have a studio that meets our needs more efficiently and gives us room to grow.”
-Michael Lee, Director of Paper and Photograph Conservation
From single items to full collections, the conservation studios support book, paper, Asian art, and photograph treatment, ranging from basic stabilization to extensive chemical and structural repairs. One major upgrade is the fume hood room, which now features a walk-up spray booth for toning paper and revarnishing maps.
Book Conservation (left to right): Abra Mueller, Jessica Henze, Audrey Jawando, Ned Schultz, Bexx Caswell-Olson, and Morgan Mahan
Paper and Photograph Conservation (left to right): Michael Lee, Monique Fischer, Luana Maekawa, Olivia Frechette, Dylan Safford, Natalia Paskova, and Katie Boodle
Conservation Framing (left to right): Annajean Hamel and Dylan Safford
Imaging Services
Room to Grow
"While the lab is still a work in progress, we’ve already started to see the value of a space designed to meet our department’s current needs. But it was also designed with the future in mind, and as those needs evolve we’ll be able to easily reconfigure the layout and equipment to match."
- Terrance D'Ambrosio, Director of Imaging Services
Imaging Services is the NEDCC department that has seen the most significant evolution of its services over the decades, beginning with preservation microfilming in 1978 but now focusing on high resolution digitization. Because of this, we’ve designed the new lab with an open, flexible layout defined by reconfigurable partitions that can adapt to the department’s needs over time.
The department’s footprint also increased by 20% to meet the growing demand for its services, and can now accommodate 10 full-time photographers and 10 workstations designed to safely capture the range of formats the department digitizes (bound and unbound documents, oversize materials, and transmissive media).
Another upgrade in the space is in our printing studio, where we create facsimiles of original objects. It now features an ISO-calibrated lighting system that simulates different viewing environments and will allow us to custom-color match facsimiles to an institution’s specific conditions.
Reflective Station (left to right): Alyssa VanderWeg, Trieu Nguyen, and Nino Gordeladze
XY Table (left to right): Wells Douglas, Terrance D'Ambrosio, David Joyall, and Heidi Klein
Audio Preservation
Built for Critical-Listening
"While our audio spaces were well designed in our previous space, now they are designed for us to work better together.”
- Bryce Roe, Director of Audio Preservation
Established in 2014, NEDCC’s Audio Preservation department operated out of a handful of remaining rooms in the former Center. Now, the control rooms used for fully attended transfers of grooved, magnetic, and digital audio formats are organized around a shared workspace designed to improve coordination, collaboration, and efficiency.
Magnetic Tape Control Room (left to right): Karl Fleck and Hannah Rose Baker
IRENE Control Room (left to right): Julia Hawkins and Bryce Roe
Preservation Services
Supporting a National Team
“Preservation Services is NEDCC’s educational outreach arm, with staff and programs spanning the country from California to Maine. The new facility in Andover, MA is our hub and home base. It provides quiet 'flex desks' that we can use when we are in the office, and it has larger spaces where the whole department can gather for professional development and training.”
- Ann Marie Willer, Director of Preservation Services
Created in 1980, the Preservation Services department has trained thousands of people through in-person workshops, online webinars, and free Preservation Leaflets.
In contrast to past decades, most of NEDCC's preservation specialists work remotely from different regions of the country, providing popular wet salvage workshops, preservation assessments, assistance with policy writing, support for dPlan|ArtsReady, and the "Ready—Or Not": Cultural Heritage Disaster Preparedness Project in California.
Preservation Services (left to right - back row): Jason Partida, Julie Bly DeVere, Alyssa Magnone, Liz Holbrook, Jesse Keel, Ann Marie Willer, Mary Kate Kwasnik, Megan Dirickson, Hillary Ellis
(left to right - front row): Celeste Knight, Ozge Gencay Ustun, Sarika Ramaswamy