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 |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Thesis | Factors Influencing Participant Satisfaction with Free/Libre and Open Source Software Projects (2011) |
| Website | University homepage |
Brenda Chawner is a Canadian-New Zealand library academic specialising in the intersection between librarianship and information technology.
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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]
