Biography
Gina Costello is an Associate Librarian and Head of Digital Services at Louisiana State University Libraries. She manages the digitization unit and the Digital Scholarship Lab.
Selected Grants & Contracts
Co-Principal Investigator, Project Ceres grant, "Louisiana Digital BibliAGraphy: 100 Years of LSU Agricultural Experiment Station Publications, 1888-1898." August 2014-July 2015.
Co-Author and Technical Partner, Mississippi Department of Archives and History National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) National Digital Newspaper Program grant. September 2013 - August 2015, (LSU sub-award).
Project Director, NEH National Digital Newspaper Program grant. July 2009 - August 2015.
Co-Project Director, NEH-funded "Free People of Color in Louisiana: Revealing an Unknown Past." May 2013-April 2015.
Co-Principal investigator, Louisiana Agricultural Center Sugar Research Station-funded digitization of The Sugar Bulletin and other resources. Funded 2012-2014.
Project Manager, Louisiana Board of Regents-funded "Building Digital Resources for Research: Creating a Digitized Collection of United States Army Corps of Engineers Publications and Related Historical Materials for Access and Preservation." 2012-2013.
Project Manager, Louisiana Sea Grant sponsored project to develop image and map collections in the Louisiana Digital Library. March - December 2010.
Co-Principal Investigator, Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries-funded project to digitize Louisiana Conservationist and associated titles. July 2010 - July 2011.
