Brenda Chawner
Portrait of Brenda Chawner in a tan top against a black background in her role as a judge at the New Zealand Open Source Awards
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

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

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. ↑ Chawner, Brenda (2011). Factors Influencing Participant Satisfaction with Free/Libre and Open Source Software Projects (Doctoral thesis). Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington. doi:10.26686/wgtn.16985479.
  3. 1 2 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}}: 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. 8 November 2012. 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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