The EAST Program Team holds biannual onboarding webinars for new staff at our member libraries. The Fall 2024 webinar took… Read More » Please join us to hear about the work of EAST over the past 3 months, followed by open topic discussion.… Read More » Please join us for the first meeting of the EAST Resource Sharing Community of Interest! January 22,11:00-11:45 am. (Register) All… Read More » The 2024 EAST annual member meeting was held virtually on October 22, 2024 from 9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. ET.… Read More » The EAST Member Meeting Planning Committee is soliciting proposals for 4-7 minute lightning talks to be presented at the annual member meeting… Read More » The EAST Project Team holds biannual onboarding webinars for new staff at our member libraries. The Spring 2024 webinar took… Read More » The EAST Board is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of a national search for the next EAST Director with… Read More » The Journal of Library Administration published the following article on March 6, 2024. Susan Stearns & Sara Amato (2024) “The… Read More » Columbia, SC and Sterling, MA, December 6, 2023 The Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST) announces the addition of 37 new… Read More » The EAST Project Team holds biannual onboarding webinars for new staff at our member libraries. The Fall 2023 webinar took… Read More » The 2023 EAST annual member meeting was held virtually on October 4, 2023 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. ET. … Read More » Boston Library Consortium (BLC) and Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) are pleased to announce a significant milestone in their partnership.… Read More » VIVA, Virginia's Academic Library Consortium, has joined the Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST). We are pleased to share with you… Read More » We are pleased to inform you that EAST has completed the necessary legal steps to become a public charity and… Read More » The EAST Project Team holds biannual onboarding webinars for staff at our member libraries. The January 2023 webinar took place… Read More » Updated November 18, 2022 The Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (www.eastlibraries.org), among the largest shared print programs in the U.S., is… Read More » The EAST Project Team and members of the Strategic Directions Task Force held two webinars in September and October to… Read More » The 2022 EAST Strategic Directions are now available for feedback. Staff at EAST member institutions are encouraged to review the… Read More » The EAST Executive Committee and Project Team invite nominations for upcoming vacancies in the Executive and Operations Committees. Nominations will… Read More » The Print Archive Network (PAN) Forum met virtually on June 24th from 12-2pm ET. Slides from presentations are now available… Read More » Recordings and slides from EAST webinars, including quarterly updates and member meetings, are available from the EAST webinars page. Read More » EAST is delighted to welcome the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, the State Library of… Read More » The 2021 Virtual EAST Member Meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 16th from 10:00am-12:00pm EST. The draft agenda includes… Read More » It's time again for our regular quarterly updates to the EAST membership! We've scheduled two webinar updates in July, please… Read More » In the Fall of 2020, the EAST Project Team and Executive Committee undertook a formal program assessment that analyzed the… Read More » The recording and slides for the EAST Quarterly Update Webinars held in April 2021. Webinar Recording Webinar Slides Read More » Below please find the links to recordings, slides, and breakout session notes from the 2020 EAST Member Meeting, held virtually… Read More » The EAST Executive Committee and Project Team are pleased to announce that registration is open for the 2020 EAST Member… Read More » The EAST Project Team is pleased to bring you the third quarterly webinar of the year. We'll host two sessions in early August to share… Read More » The EAST Project Team has scheduled two webinars to review the OCLC Registration of retention commitments process. For information on… Read More » The EAST Project Team has scheduled the second of this year's quarterly member updates for late April/early May. Attendees can… Read More » During this time of uncertainty and rapidly shifting information, ILL librarians at member institutions should check individual libraries’ websites for… Read More » Boston, MA--February 24, 2020: The Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) is pleased to announce that twelve libraries within the University… Read More » The EAST Project Team scheduled the first of the quarterly update webinars in January 2020. Below please find the recording and slides for the webinar. Beginning… Read More » On Monday, December 16th, Andy Breeding, GreenGlass Product Manager, provided an overview of the recently merged GreenGlass instance. This new… Read More » The recording of the keynote and member update presentations is now available! The slides for all presentations are also available on… Read More » EAST is pleased to announce that six of the Florida State University System libraries, plus their shared repository collection, are… Read More » The latest quarterly update webinar on the work of EAST took place in August 2019. The Project Team provided information… Read More » The EAST Project Team held a short webinar on how to use the Tableau interface when making retention decisions for… Read More » The EAST Executive Committee and Project Team are pleased to announce that registration is open for the 2019 EAST Member… Read More » The latest quarterly update webinar on the work of EAST took place in May 2019. The Project Team provided information… Read More » The EAST Executive Committee and Project Team are pleased to share the news that the Project Team has received ALCTS' 2019 Cunha-Swartzburg… Read More » In January 2019, the EAST Project Team provided a series of webinar updates to the membership. The recording and slides… Read More » Every January and June, shared print programs participate in the Print Archive Network (PAN) Forum sponsored and hosted by the… Read More » The EAST Project Team is offering an update webinar for EAST members on January 16th, 21st, and 22nd. Please use… Read More » Sara Amato and Susan Stearns' article, Documenting the Stewardship of Libraries: The Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust Validation Sample Studies, has been… Read More » EAST maintains three open mailing lists - a members list, a resources sharing list and an 'interested' list, for those… Read More » The EAST Project Team provides onboarding support for new staff at member libraries via the documentation below, on personalized meetings/video… Read More » The Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) submitted the final report on its activities to the Mellon Foundation. The report outlines… Read More » The 2018 EAST Member Meeting took place on Friday, October 19th at the Metro Meeting Centers in Downtown Boston. Librarians… Read More » In August, the EAST Project team provided a series of updates to the EAST membership. Below are the links to… Read More » In May 2018, the SCS GreenGlass team provided EAST Member institutions with an hour-long webinar highlighting possible projects using GreenGlass… Read More » In late 2017 and early 2018, the EAST Executive Committee and Project Team worked on a scenario document to chart… Read More » The Book Traces project originated at the University of Virginia (UVA) in 2014 with a focus on identifying library books, primarily… Read More » The EAST Executive Committee and Project Team have drafted a scenario document to share the direction of the Eastern Academic… Read More » On Tuesday, April 10th, EAST Data Librarian Sara Amato provided an overview of the next steps for Cohort 2 libraries:… Read More » Boston, MA -- March 12, 2018 -- The Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST), which includes 60 academic and research institutions… Read More » In March 2018, the EAST Project team provided a series of updates to the EAST membership. Below are the links… Read More » In early March 2018, representatives of Cohort 2 Serials/Journals retention partners participated in a webinar to review the tasks, timelines,… Read More » In January 2018, Matthew Revitt, EAST Shared Print Consultant, presented a webinar on governance in Shared Print Programs for ALCTS,… Read More » In October 2017, Matthew Revitt, EAST Shared Print Consultant, presented at the New England Library Association (NELA) Annual Conference, held in… Read More » EAST held its annual fall meeting in Boston on Friday, October 13th. Over 50 librarians from across the institutional diversity… Read More » On October 13, 2017, we will convene an EAST member meeting to share information and advance discussions of next steps… Read More » During the first two weeks of June, representatives of all Cohort 2 libraries participated in a webinar to introduce them to… Read More » Please download the EAST SCS cataloging questionnaire and instructions appropriate to your institution (files are Word documents). Complete your questionnaire prior to June 30th,… Read More » In May of 2017, several libraries from across the East and Southeast of the United States joined EAST as 12… Read More » The EAST project's request to extend the funding under the grant provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from June… Read More » Members of the EAST project team gave presentations at the 2017 ACRL, ACRL New England, and Online Northwest Conferences. Susan Stearns,… Read More » The EAST Project Team provided a Members Update in early May. The webinar covered the work of the Serials &… Read More » This webinar was held February 16 , 2017 and provided an overview of the EAST ILL Best Practices, approved by… Read More » Susan Stearns, Project Director for EAST, hosted a series of update webinars for the EAST members in late January. A… Read More » The EAST Data Librarian, Sara Amato, presented a lightning talk on our validation samply study at the LITA forum held… Read More » Curating Collective Collections — Protecting the Scholarly Record: Shared Print at Scale - the EAST project was highlighted in the… Read More » On October 14th, 2016, EAST held a meeting of the full membership to review the progress of the last year… Read More » On October 14th, 2016, EAST held a meeting of the full membership to review the progress of the last year… Read More » Susan Stearns, Project Director for EAST, recently completed the Interim Report to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on the first… Read More » Boston, MA – October 14, 2016 – The academic and research libraries of the Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) met… Read More » The EAST project team, headed by Susan Stearns, Project Director, recently completed the Interim Report to the Andrew W. Mellon… Read More » On October 14, 2016, we will convene an EAST member meeting to share information and advance discussions of next steps… Read More » This recorded webinar provides an overview of EAST's major operating policies. In this webinar each section of the EAST Major Operating… Read More » At the semi-annual forum of the Print Archive Network (PAN) in June, 2016, Susan Stearns, Executive Director of Boston Library Consortium & Project Director… Read More » At the semi-annual forum of the Print Archive Network (PAN) in January, 2016, Anna Perricci, Project Manager for EAST, presented… Read More » In May, 2016 Anna Perricci, Project Manager for EAST, presented these slides at ACRL New England's Annual Conference. On the… Read More » In April, 2015 Susan Stearns, Executive Director of Boston Library Consortium & Project Director of EAST, presented these slides at the New England Technical Services Librarians conference. Read More » In April, 2016 Anna Perricci, Project Manager for EAST, presented these slides at the New England Technical Services Librarians conference. Read More » EAST, formerly known as the Northeast Regional Library Print Management Project, grew out of a series of discussions among more… Read More » EAST's implementation phase was launched in the summer of 2015. For more on those events see this video of the kick off… Read More » This recorded webinar provides an update on the activities of EAST with a focus on work done in the fall of 2015 through… Read More » Forty of the EAST member libraries have completed the largest validation sample study ever done. The study was undertaken to… Read More » Thanks to the hard work of the EAST team and our vendor partner, OCLC Sustainable Collection Services (SCS), we have… Read More » The PAN Annual 2022 Forum will be held June 24, 2022, Noon-2 Eastern. This meeting will again be virtual, free… Read More »
