Jean Butler

Jean Butler serves as a Contract Specialist within the Contracts Services office of the Library of Congress, where she plays a pivotal role in executing procurements that advance the nation’s digital stewardship of cultural and intellectual heritage. She manages the full lifecycle of acquisitions for information technology and media services critical to large-scale digitization, metadata enrichment, and digital preservation initiatives. Her work directly supports the agency’s mission to ensure public access to archival collections through modernized technological infrastructure, with a focus on accessibility-compliant systems and scalable digital platforms. Jean maintains enduring partnerships with key contractors including the Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Accessibility Services Inc., Castro & Company, LLC, the Utah State Library Division, and the University of Washington. These relationships reflect a preference for mission-aligned organizations with deep expertise in accessible media, assistive technologies, and archival digitization. Her contracting approach emphasizes long-term collaboration with entities that bring specialized technical capabilities in inclusive design, audio description, and digital asset management. Jean’s procurement portfolio is entirely non-set-aside, reflecting a strategic emphasis on technical merit and institutional capacity over socioeconomic classifications. While she does not prioritize 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB set-asides, her selections consistently favor vendors with proven experience in federal cultural heritage projects and demonstrated compliance with Section 508 accessibility standards. Her primary focus lies within NAICS 813910 (Business Associations), where she procures services from nonprofit and educational consortia that provide specialized digital preservation, metadata standardization, and accessible content delivery solutions. Her domain expertise centers on procurement of technical services supporting digital libraries, audiovisual archiving, and universal access systems for patrons with disabilities.