The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) has launched new case studies, guidance and tools to support museums, libraries and archives in planning how they deliver their services and in measuring their contribution to social outcomes, and which includes a listing of helpful websites and guidance on the place of cultural activities in delivering Local Area Agreements.
The Generic Social Outcomes Framework (GSO), developed for MLA in 2005, has been widely used by organisations such as Tyne and Wear Museums & Archives, Essex libraries, Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery, Museums Sheffield, Stoke-on-Trent Museums to capture the contribution museums, libraries and archives can make to their communities and wider society.
The new materials are based on first-hand experiences of organisations using the GSO framework, and include a helpful step-by-step approach to using the guidance. Other tools include sample questionnaires to help gather evidence of impact on users and case studies illustrating how organisations have successfully used the GSO framework to plan their delivery; assess their contribution to outcomes; and advocate for their service.
The new materials are published on the MLA’s Inspiring Learning for All website – a source of information for practitioners in the museums, libraries and archives sector looking at learning and social outcomes.
Inspiring Learning for All: LINK
MLA News: LINK
MLA Delivering Outcomes: LINK
Download the helpful websites index: LINK
