Please join Kalyn Loewer, NYG&B's Digital Collections Manager; Anna Gardner, NYG&B's Digitize New York Manager; and Ray LaFever, Archivist for the Delaware County Historical Association (DCHA), for a look at newly digitized materials from the Delaware County Historical Association collection. The speakers will discuss the NYG&B’s local partnership with the DCHA that was integral to this Digitize New York preservation effort, share how the materials were digitized using a digitization kit, and go in-depth on how to locate and view the digital images on the NYG&B’s Online Collections Catalog.
About the Speakers
Ray LaFever works two days a week as the archivist for the Delaware County (NY) Historical Association. He also is the historian for the Town of Bovina, serving since 2004. In 2019, he wrote and published a history of the Town of Bovina. He co-wrote with DCHA Director Tim Duerden an Images of America book on Delaware County. Ray retired from the New York State Archives in 2010, where he was the Coordinator of Archival Advisory Services. He received his Master of Library Science degree from SUNY Albany in 1986. Ray is a native of Bovina, New York.
Anna Gardner supports the statewide growth and operations of the NYG&B’s Digitize New York initiative through project development and community outreach from her base at the Central New York Digitization Center in Syracuse. Prior to joining NYG&B, she was the senior manager of marketing and communications at Henry Street Settlement, where she played a key role in driving grassroots and digital outreach efforts to connect New Yorkers to social service, health care, arts, and history programs. Anna holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film, Photography, and Visual Arts from Ithaca College and is an alumna of its prestigious Park Scholar program.
As the Manager of Digital Collections, Kalyn Loewer uses digital preservation and archival techniques to support the NYG&B’s mission to preserve, document, and share family history. She works to digitize documents from all over New York State and makes materials available to researchers via the online collections. She also educates communities about how to access and maximize the NYG&B’s online collections. Kalyn was the recipient of the John C. Gorman '38 Medal for Excellence in History from St. Francis College in 2021.