Gina Costello oversees the technology initiatives and special collections units in the LSU Libraries. Her responsibilities in technology initiatives include strategic direction and oversight of the website, application/software development, systems and desktop support, digitization, and digital scholarship. She manages a special collections department of 20 faculty and staff and is responsible for endowments of nearly $6 million. She was previously head of the Digital Services Department where she was responsible for the digitization of materials found in the Libraries and for collaborative digitization efforts within and outside the Libraries. She serves as the LSU Libraries contact for the Louisiana Digital Library (LDL). From 2009-2015, she was Project Director or co-director of the Digitizing Louisiana Newspapers Project, a National Endowment for the Humanities funded project through the Library of Congress.