Belinda Weaver was born in 1954 in Laidley, Queensland. Majoring in French and English, she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Queensland in 1976. She has worked as a librarian in two art schools, one in Sydney, one in London, and has also worked in a public library and a university library. While working in Sydney libraries, she also did some freelance copy-editing for publishers Hale & Iremonger and Allen & Unwin.
She lived and worked in London for ten years before returning to Australia in 1996. In 2001, she was awarded a Graduate Certificate in Journalism from The University of Queensland. She wrote a monthly Internet column, Weaver's Web, for the ALIA journal, inCite, from 1997-2001, and wrote a weekly Internet column, FindIT, for the Courier-Mail, from 2001-2006.
Her book, Catch the Wave: How to Find Good Information on the Internet Fast was published by RMIT Publishing in 2003. In the same year, her book chapter, 'The computer as an essential tool' was published by Pearson Education in Journalism: investigation and research, edited by Stephen Tanner.
In 2008, she was awarded a Diploma of Project Management from The Australian Institute of Management. She was voted ALIA Queensland's Library Achiever of the Year in 2003 and won the UQ Alumni Association's Margaret Waugh Bursary in 2006. She served as a Member of the Collections Advisory Group, State Library of Queensland from 2006-2009. Weaver worked for AustLit on the redevelopment of the interface and user testing from 2011-2013. She works for the Queensland Cyber-Infrastructure Foundation.
