Laura Costello

Laura is the head of research and emerging technologies at Stony Brook University Libraries. She formerly served as the head of library materials and acquisitions at EdLab, a design and development unit of the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College, Columbia University. She received her MLIS from the University of Wisconsin and BA in English literature from the University of Minnesota.Highlight projects include Roomer, a mobile room reservation system and Pocket Knowledge, a social and digital archive at Teachers College. She has also been deeply engaged in the library redesigns at both Teachers College and Stony Brook University. Her research interests include data and demand driven strategies for acquisitions and other library management decisions, emerging technologies in libraries, education technology, and designing digital and physical library learning spaces.Laura’s professional goals include changing everything, not destroying the library, and maintaining the delicate balance between old skool librarianship and newfangled technology.

Publications

Developing In-House Digital Tools in Library Spaces
Developing In-House Digital Tools in Library Spaces
Laura Costello, Meredith Powers. © 2018. 274 pages.
Library services are dependent on technology tools in order to host, distribute, and control content. Today, many libraries are creating, testing, and supporting their own tools...
Developing Unique Study Room Reservation Systems: Examples From Teachers College and Stony Brook University
Developing Unique Study Room Reservation Systems: Examples From Teachers College and Stony Brook University
Laura Costello, Shafeek Fazal. © 2018. 9 pages.
Room reservation systems are important in an increasingly collaborative library environment. This chapter explores two case studies of libraries experimenting with room-bound...