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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.
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]
- ^ "Brenda Chawner - School of Information Management - Victoria University of Wellington". Victoria.ac.nz. 20 December 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Email: Brenda Chawner retiring from VUW's School of Information Management: NZLibs. https://lists.vuw.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nz-libs
- ^ Button, Megan. "Brenda Chawner appointed new NZLIMJ Editor". Lianza. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ^ 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) - ^ "2012 News | Victoria Business School | Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz.
- ^ "NZOSA Judge Dr Brenda Chawner - Victoria University of Wellington | Flickr - Photo Sharing!". Flickr. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ^ "News & Media". NZOSA. Archived from the original on 4 July 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ^ "Welcome to the 'free' World: A Free Software Initiative". Bharathi Puthakalayam. 19 November 2011 – via Google Books.