The document discusses a partnership between academic libraries and deans at the University of Portsmouth to pay graduate students to help populate the university's online reading list system. Key points: - The library had struggled to encourage faculty to contribute reading lists to the existing online system. - An innovative funding model had certain deans provide money to hire recent graduates to work with faculty librarians and collect reading lists. - This approach was successful in getting much higher reading list coverage across multiple faculties. It provided benefits to students, faculty, and the library. - The graduates also found the experience valuable for future employment opportunities.