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Brenda Chawner
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
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