As an example of partnering with stakeholders, consider librarians. They generally see themselves as academics but do not always feel that others see them in that light. When invited to join and help grow the SOTL initiative, they were very pleased for the opportunity to participate with faculty in an obviously academic enterprise. The librarians enriched SOTL with talent, initiatives, and resources.

Librarians:

• volunteered as consultants to individual faculty investigators needing assistance in locating unfamiliar teaching and learning literature.
• gave presentations to show use of information technology to access SOTL-related resources.
  made free document delivery systematically available to scholars of teaching.
• acquired multiple copies of critical books and put them on reserve for “SOTLites”.
  served on working committees of the Faculty Advisory Council.

The librarians, in turn, found participation rewarding both individually and collectively.