Surveys and prizes

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

We've been swamped with surveys of every sort lately offering 
$50.000 gift certificates, $100.00 drawings, and all sorts of 
things as inducements to participate. As public university 
employees in North Carolina our understanding is we can't accept 
such offers. If vendors and questionnaire designers always 
included "opt out" options clearly marked at the beginning of 
such surveys they might get better results.

Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
phone 704 687-2825