Finding the right person to Sample Clauses

Finding the right person to address is difficult and time consuming During the three cycles of the ENUMERATE project the fact that memory institutions exist in many varieties affected the survey approach in many ways. The ENUMERATE initiative was cross domain, trans-national, and targeted institutions that range from very small (one volunteer; no budget) to very large (hundreds of staff; budgets exceeding €10 million a year). Ideally, questionnaires are sent directly to the staff member that is best able to answer (most of) the questions, but judging from the responses we received in the surveys, there is not one specific profile of a staff member that can be addressed. The answers were provided by a wide variety of staff members, from policy advisors to collection curators. The less preferable but easiest solution that ENUMERATE applied was to address the director in person, with the request to forward the questionnaire internally to the most appropriate staff member. But in many cases the name and contact information of the director were not directly available, so invitations had to be sent anonymously to the secretariats of the directors instead, which decreased the chance of receiving timely responses.