Brenda Chawner
New Zealand library academic
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Brenda Chawner is a Canadian-New Zealand library academic specialising in the intersection between librarianship and information technology.
Brenda Chawner | |
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Brenda Chawner at the New Zealand Open Source Awards 2012 ceremony in Wellington on 7 November 2012 | |
| Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington |
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| Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Thesis | Factors Influencing Participant Satisfaction with Free/Libre and Open Source Software Projects (2011) |
| Website | University 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.
