Teachers are usually very pressed for time, and time is a resource that cannot be readily increased. Teacher effort is a cost for putting into practice unfamiliar teaching strategies such as cooperative planning and it is a cost for learning how to use new resources. Teachers pay with time in order to use the library and its resources in their teaching. Lifestyle is another aspect of the social price to teachers. Collaborative work means negotiating with another to find time to work together, and it inevitably means compromises for those involved throughout the planning, teaching, and evaluating.
Lifestyle price is closely related to the fourth aspect of social price, that of psychic costs.
The teacher may face costs in terms of self-esteem and freedom from risk. The teacher may feel that the teacher-librarian is the expert in collaborative work or in technology use and that the teacher will be cast in an inferior role. With technology, comes the very real likelihood also that the students will be the experts. If teachers feel uncertain about how they can use the technology or if they are unsure about the benefits to their students, many will avoid it. Managing the nonmonetary costs of an innovation is an important aspect of implementing it.