Elizabeth La Beaud started as the new Assistant Director for the Mississippi Digital Library (MDL) in January 2018. She is the Digital Lab Manager for the University of Southern Mississippi and holds a MLIS, certificate in Archives and Special Collections, the Digital Archives Specialist certificate from SAA, and is a Library of Congress trained Digital Preservation Topical Trainer. AS MDL’s Assistant Director, her duties will include helping to recruit new partner institutions, training institutions in digitization and related topics, and managing MDL’s technology stack.