Sybil Boutilier

Sybil Boutilier is the Contract Officer for San Francisco Public Library. For the last several years she has worked with a broad assortment of publishers and information aggregators to negotiate and develop licensing agreements for SFPL's extensive collection of online materials. She is the past president of the California Library Association's Information Technology Division, and served on ALA-LITA's Legislative and Regulatory Committee for four years. She also served for 6 years as an appointed member of the City of San Francisco's Telecommunications Policy Committee, charged with developing contract provisions and compliance policies for the City's Cable Franchise Agreement. She was the Program Director of the San Francisco Community Wide Education & Information Services Initiative, exploring the early development of online resources for Schools, Libraries and Public Television and was later Principle Investigator on the National Science Foundation's "Electronic Library" grant-funded program which researched the process of integrating electronic resources into Library services for Children. She has been a frequent speaker on issues of technology and community access at conferences, seminars and symposia.