The Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST) offers membership to both individual libraries and institutions as well as to library consortia who may join EAST either as Retention or Supporting Partners.
- Individual Retention Partners and Consortia Retention Partners contribute financial support to EAST, participate in collection analysis work, and commit to retain agreed upon titles in their local collections and make these titles available to other EAST members through the EAST Lending Network.
- Individual Supporting Partners and Consortia Supporting Partners contribute financial support to EAST but do not participate in collection analysis work or make retention commitments. They participate in the EAST Lending Network.
All member libraries have opportunities to participate in EAST governance though their individual or representative Voting Members as well as contribute to operational policies and procedures of EAST through Operational Contacts.
As of January, 2024, EAST has over 170 members in 15 states from Maine to Florida. Libraries interested in joining EAST can review our Criteria for Joining EAST and contact EAST at info@eastlibraries.org. Membership in EAST has a number of benefits, please see the Value of EAST document.
The map below shows the geographic distribution of EAST members.
Retention Partners
The following institutions are EAST Retention Partners, who have committed to retaining monographs, serials and journals titles, or both. OCLC and DocLine symbols can be found on the Access and Resource Sharing page.
± Retains both monographs and serials
‡ Retains both older and newer monograph titles, up to 2021
Individual Retention Partners
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Supporting Partners
Supporting Partners provide financial support for the mission and goals of EAST and participate in governance and other programmatic activities. The individual library Supporting Partners are listed first followed by the Consortia Supporting Partners.
Individual Supporting Partners
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Voting Members
EAST libraries, either individually or through group representation, appoint a Voting Member who has responsibility for voting on issues brought to the full membership from the Program Team or the EAST Board of Directors. The Voting Members are also responsible for nominations to the EAST Board of Directors and non-executive Operations Committee.
For more information regarding the governance and operational structure of EAST, please see the Governance page.