Jessica Colati

Jessica Branco Colati, current Director of Preservation Services at NEDCC, manages NEDCC's education and outreach activities and works with the Center's Executive Director to lead future Preservation Services initiatives.  

She has more than ten years of experience processing and preserving both physical and digital collections for archives, libraries, cultural heritage institutions, and consortial library organizations. Her professional interests include ensuring the durability of digital objects as well as the care and preservation of physical collections.

She most recently served as the Director of Digital Repository Services at the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries in Denver, Colorado.  Jessica and her husband, Greg Colati, collaborated in the development and teaching of several SAA Courses and Webinars including “Thinking Digital,” Beginner’s Guide to Metadata,” Building Digital Collections,” and “The Essentials of Digital Repositories.”

Jessica earned a B.A. in History from Tufts University, and an M.L.I.S. from Simmons College, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, with a concentration in Archives Management.