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Karen Butter
 
University Librarian Karen Butter
Title
University Librarian and Assistant Vice Chancellor, Library Services and Instructional Technology
 
Contact Information
(415) 476-8293 (Voice)
(415) 476-4653 (Fax)
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Address
Library and Center for Knowledge Management
University of California, San Francisco
530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
 
Honors and Awards
  • Medical Library Assocation. Frank Bradway Rogers Award - Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, 2007
  • NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Mentor, 2003 - 2004
  • Distinguished Member, MLA Academy of Health Information Professionals, 1990 -
  • Who's Who in America, 61st edition, 2007
 
Grants
  • Principal Investigator, Preserving At-Risk Tobacco Control Policy Resources. Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, 7/04 - 6/07
  • Principal Investigator, FAMRI Digital Library of Documents. Flight Attendants Medical Research Foundation, 6/03 - 1/06
  • Principal Investigator, Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. American Legacy Foundation,
    2001 -
  • Principal Investigator, Proposition 99 Archives. Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (9RT-0135), 4/01 - 4/02
  • Principal Investigator, Tobacco Control Digital Library. Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (8RT-0043), 7/99 - 6/03
  • Principal Investigator, Tobacco Control Archives: Mangini Documents. Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (7ST-0199), 7/98 - 1/99
  • Principal Investigator. Biosites Evaluation Project. PHS/National Library of Medicine Contract NO1-LM-6-3527, 9/97 - 3/98
  • Principal Investigator, Proposition 99 Archives. Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (6SP-0455), 7/98 - 6/00
 
Institutional Committees
University of California, San Francisco
  • Western Association of Schools and College Accreditation Steering Committee, 2006 - 2010
  • Academic Information Systems Board, 2006 -
  • Joint IT Governance Committee, 2001 -
  • Academic Computing Advisory Committee, Chair, 2001 - 2005
  • LCME Self Study Task Force, 2001 - 2003
  • Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women Committee, 2007 - 2008
  • Comprehehsive Cancer Center, 2002 -
University of California
  • Academic Council Special Committee on Scholarly Communication, 2004 - 2006
  • Standing Committee on Copyright, 2000 - 2003
  • University Librarians, 2000 -
  •    - Chair, 2003 - 2005
  •    - Systemwide Operations and Planning Committee, 1999 - 2000
  •    - UC/OCLC Executive Committee
  •        - Chair, 2007 -
  • Northern California Regional Library Board
  •    - Chair, 2001 - 2004
  • Shared Library Facilities Board
  •    - Chair, 2005 - 2008
  • Systemwide Scholarly Library and Information Advisory Committee
  •    - Member, 2005 -
 
Professional Committees
AAMC, Association of Academic Health Science Libraries
  • Program and Education Committee
  •    - Member, 2001 - 2004
  •    - Chair, 2002 - 2003
  • Statistics Editorial Board, 2001 - 2005
  • Ad Hoc Committee on Scholarly Communication, 2003 - 2005
  • Scholarly Communication Committee
  •    - Member, 2004 -
  •    - Chair, 2006 -
  • Group on Information Resources
  •    - Program Committee Member, 2007 - 2008
Selected Papers & Publications
  • Butter KA, Schmidt H. "Creating an Academic 'Home' for Clinical & Translational Research: Library Roles." Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, Philadelphia, May 18-23, 2007.
  • Butter KA, Neilsen KN, Glantz S, Schick S. "Providing Access to Unpublished Industry Research." Poster presented at the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, Fourth Annual Symposium, May 2005.
  • Schmidt H, Butter KA, Rider C. "Building Digital Tobacco Industry Document Libraries at the University of California, San Francisco Library/Center for Knowledge Management." D-Lib Magazine.  September 2002.
  • Butter KA. The Library in the Digital Age. Trends in Cell Biology. 1997 Oct;414-416.
  • Butter K, Chandler R, Kunze K. "The Cigarette Papers: Issues in Publishing Materials in Multiple Formats." D-Lib Magazine. November 1996.
  • Butter KA. "New Models for World Wide Web Publishing." Presented at the Coalition for Networked Information. San Francisco. Fall 1996 Task Force Meeting. December 6, 1996.
  • Butter KA. Book Review: "Networked Scholarly Publishing." Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. 1996 July; 84(3):449-50.
  • Butter, KA. Medical Informatics Column. "Red Sage: The next step in delivery of electronic journals." Medical Reference Services Quarterly. 1994 Fall;13(3):75-81.
  • Butter KA. The next step in electronic publishing: Red Sage and TULIP. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Electronic Publishing. Tokyo, Japan: USACO, 1994:1-16.
  • Butter KA. "New Technologies: Now and the Future." In: Wood S, ed. Current Practices in Health Sciences Librarianship. Volume I: Reference. Scarecrow Press. 1994.
  • Matheson NW, Butter KA. "Medical Libraries." In: Lester, J. ed. Libraries and Information Services Today. The Yearly Chronicle. Chicago: ALA. 1991.
  • Matheson NW, Lucier RE, Reynolds RE, Butter KA. "The Expanding Role of Libraries in the Academic Health Center." In: Arms, C, ed. Campus Strategies for Libraries and Electronic Information. Bedford, MA: Digital Education Corporation, 1991:274-304.
  • Butter KA. Book Review: "Public Access Microcomputers in Academic Libraries: the Mann Library Model at Cornell University." Information Processing and Management. 1989 (2);25:219.
  • Butter KA. "Links for the Future: the Hopkins IAIMS Model." Library Technical Services Quarterly. 1988 Oct;6:41-50.
  • Lucier RE, Matheson NW, Butter KA, Reynolds RE. "The Knowledge Workstation: an Electronic Environment for Knowledge Management." Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. 1988 Jul;76(3):248-55.
  • Peay WJ, Butter KA, Dougherty NE. "IAIMS and the Library at the University of Utah." Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. 1986 Jul;74(3):238-42.
  • Butter KA, ed. University of Utah Health Sciences Center. "IAIMS - Integrated Academic Information Management System. Final Report. Strategic Planning. Phase I." 1985.
  • Peay WJ, Butter KA, Ellis S. "Production of a Union List of Serials using the PHILSOM Serials System." Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. 1984 Jan;72(1):28-29.
 
 
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