News

Shared Print Monograph Summits

Shared Print Monograph Summits In 2018, with the support of the Mellon Foundation, the Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) convened two summits focusing on shared print. These invitation-only summits are based on the premise that...
Learn more

Governance Models for Shared Print Collections, a webinar by ALCTS

In January 2018, Matthew Revitt, EAST Shared Print Consultant, presented a webinar on governance in Shared Print Programs for ALCTS, the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services. The webinar gave an overview of the...
Learn more

EAST presents at 2017 NELA Annual Conference and Charleston Conference

In October 2017, Matthew Revitt, EAST Shared Print Consultant, presented at the New England Library Association (NELA) Annual Conference, held in South Burlington, Vermont. Matthew's presentation, titled Building a Shared Collection for the Northeast, is...
Learn more

EAST Member Meeting, October 13th, 2017

On October 13, 2017, we will convene an EAST member meeting to share information and advance discussions of next steps for EAST. We will celebrate the accomplishments of important milestones, such as the validation sample...
Learn more

EAST Grows with Cohort 2 Libraries

In May of 2017, several libraries from across the East and Southeast of the United States joined EAST as 12 Retention Partners and 1 Supporting Partner. These institutions will work through the monograph collection analysis...
Learn more

EAST No Cost Extension of Mellon Grant Approved

The EAST project's request to extend the funding under the grant provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation from June 30, 2017 to June 30, 2018 has been approved. This extension allows EAST to utilize...
Learn more

EAST presents at ACRL, ACRL New England, and Online Northwest Conferences

Photograph of Baltimore Harbor. Courtesy of www.baltophoto.org Members of the EAST project team gave presentations at the 2017 ACRL, ACRL New England, and Online Northwest Conferences. Susan Stearns, EAST Project Director, presented a poster on...
Learn more

EAST Member Meeting

On October 14th, 2016, EAST held a meeting of the full membership to review the progress of the last year and discuss the future. In addition to current EAST members , a number of libraries...
Learn more

Mellon Interim Report for EAST

Susan Stearns, Project Director for EAST, recently completed the Interim Report to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on the first full year of EAST's operation (July 1, 2015 through June 30,2016). The text of the...
Learn more

EAST Celebrates the Retention of over 6 Million Print Monographs

Boston, MA – October 14, 2016 – The academic and research libraries of the Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) met today in Boston to celebrate the largest shared print monograph initiative to date. The institutional...
Learn more

Pages