MLA Connect Advocacy Hour: Document Your Impact with Project Outcome
Thursday, May 15, 2025
10:00 - 11:00 AM
This presentation focuses on data from Project Outcome, a free toolkit and online resource developed by the Public Library Association with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It enables libraries to document the outcomes resulting from their programming. Project Outcome emerged to address a need among libraries to measure performance in a way that goes beyond the quantity of services provided, which is already captured in the Public Library Survey (PLS). Outcome measurement focuses on the benefits that patrons realize from library interactions. Since its launch in 2015, Project Outcome has collected over 390,000 survey responses from nearly 2,300 library districts. We report on data from Project Outcome and provide descriptive statistics about libraries that demonstrate the national value they provide to communities.
Speaker
 A.J. Million
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
A.J. Million is an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan's Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research where he directs the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. His research examines public-sector technology use, scholarly communication, knowledge infrastructures, research data management, public administration, and libraries. Dr. Million holds a Ph.D. in Information Science & Learning Technologies from the University of Missouri, and his work has been funded by the U.S. Departments of Justice, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Centers for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health, Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the American Association of Universities. To learn more about Dr. Million, visit www.amillion.us.
Advocacy Hour conversations are always free to attend but registration is required.
MLA Connect Advocacy Hours are an opportunity for the library community to learn more about MLA's advocacy and legislative priorities including funding, elections, property taxes, literacy, internet access, privacy, intellectual freedom, and more. Each month, we will address a new topic and share any pending legislation introduced in the House or Senate that could impact the Michigan library community. Open discussion and Q & A will follow the interview-style agenda.
Monthly sessions will take place generally on the third Thursday of the month at 10:00 AM. Advocacy Hours are free to attend to anyone interested in joining the conversation! A maximum of 500 attendees can join each live event. Registered attendees will receive information and a link to access the meetings on the Zoom platform.
Please note recordings of all MLA Advocacy Hours are available to watch for free and on-demand at MLA Connect On-Demand.
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