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I think a lot of academic librarians are keen collaborators and really get to know a lot about the various units on their campuses, what they do, and what is important to them. This reinforces libraries’ critical role(s) in supporting the work of our institutions. In addition, it helps us to be good connectors for our colleagues, something that is really important but often remains invisible. For me in particular, that is thinking about how we can partner with instructors and other teaching and learning colleagues to help students develop their information literacy, critical thinking, problem solving and research skills. In addition to providing strategic direction to University Libraries’ Teaching & Learning Department, including thinking about necessary staffing and resources, I am working very specifically with my colleagues on an instructor development workshop called Meaningful Inquiry (), which is based on the article for which I received the 2020 Instruction Section Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year Award. In this workshop, we intend to help instructors integrate information literacy into their courses using an equity mindset. Colleagues who have participated in the workshop are eligible to apply for a Meaningful Inquiry Grant, in which they receive incentivization to work with librarians and Writing Across the Curriculum to transform their courses based on the Meaningful Inquiry Workshop’s content. We recently awarded our first six grants and are incredibly excited to continue our work with those instructors!