Pat Eaves-Brown is the art, music and landscape architecture liaison librarian at the University of Guelph. She studied art at University of Windsor and Concordia University. She has shown her work in Windsor, Detroit, Montreal, Brantford, and Kitchener as well as in Guelph. Her favourite medium at the moment is encaustic.

Pat is currently working on a project through the University of Guelph to survey the information needs of practicing artists in the community.  She will use the survey results to guide her in constructing a website tailored to the information needs of Guelph artists.

How Artists Seek Information/Inspiration Survey

This survey is intended to gather information on how practicing visual artists (including graphic artists and craftspeople) seek information or knowledge once they have left school. Until recently very little has been done to study the information seeking of artist practitioners in the real
world. Previously only art students and faculty, who have access to institutional library resources, have been studied.

The idea for this survey was prompted by a 4th year art student during a library instruction class at the university who said something like, "This is all great but what are we going to do when we get out?" The purpose of this survey is to provide a snapshot of how artists fare in knowledge seeking once they no longer have full or ready access to institutional resources.

Your participation in answering this survey will assist in the creation of an information website for Guelph artists. It should take about 45 minutes to complete. Your responses will be kept confidential. Please see the cover sheet for the survey for further information.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=dkr2_2fyLQd8lM_2bmIh8x2e6A_3d_3d

To see a website similar to the one I would build for you please go to
LarchInfo http://www.larchinfo.ca/