Brenda Chawner

Brenda Chawner is a Canadian-New Zealand library academic specialising in the intersection between librarianship and information technology.

Brenda Chawner
Brenda Chawner at the New Zealand Open Source Awards 2012 ceremony in Wellington on 7 November 2012
Alma materVictoria University of Wellington
Scientific career
InstitutionsVictoria University of Wellington
ThesisFactors Influencing Participant Satisfaction with Free/Libre and Open Source Software Projects (2011)
WebsiteUniversity homepage

After a BA and MLS at the University of Alberta in Canada, she did a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand[1] on the use of free and open source software in libraries.[2] The thesis was an early example of the release of academic outputs under a Creative Commons license.

Chawner worked at the National Library of New Zealand as a systems analyst[3] and later as a lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington.

Between 2011 and 2017, Chawner was the editor of The New Zealand Library and Information Management Journal.[4][5] In 2012, she won a LIANZA Fellowship.[6] In 2012 and 2014 she was a judge at the New Zealand Open Source Awards.[7][8] Chawner is credited with bringing Richard Stallman to New Zealand in 2009.[9]

Chawner retired from Victoria in 2019.[3]

Works
  • Cullen, Rowena, and Brenda Chawner. "Institutional repositories, open access, and scholarly communication: a study of conflicting paradigms." The Journal of Academic Librarianship 37, no. 6 (2011): 460–470.
  • Chawner, Brenda. "Millennium intelligence: Understanding and conducting competitive intelligence in the digital age." Online Information Review (2001).
  • Chawner, Brenda, and Paul H. Lewis. "WikiWikiWebs: New ways to communicate in a web environment." Information technology and libraries 25, no. 1 (2006): 33.

References
  1. "Brenda Chawner - School of Information Management - Victoria University of Wellington". Victoria.ac.nz. 20 December 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  2. "Factors Influencing Participant Satisfaction with Free/Libre and Open Source Software Projects". Researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  3. Email: Brenda Chawner retiring from VUW's School of Information Management: NZLibs. https://lists.vuw.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nz-libs
  4. Button, Megan. "Brenda Chawner appointed new NZLIMJ Editor". Lianza. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  5. Library and Information Management Journal, New Zealand; Angelo, Anton; Buller, Theresa (20 December 2017). "NZLIMJ Vol 56 Issue 2, December 2017". doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5725966.v2 – via figshare.com. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. "2012 News | Victoria Business School | Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz.
  7. "NZOSA Judge Dr Brenda Chawner - Victoria University of Wellington | Flickr - Photo Sharing!". Flickr. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  8. "News & Media". NZOSA. Archived from the original on 4 July 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
  9. "Welcome to the 'free' World: A Free Software Initiative". Bharathi Puthakalayam. 19 November 2011 – via Google Books.


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