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 members of EAST have committed to retain over 6 million print monographs for an initial period of 15 years. These items represent scholarly content that might otherwise have been discarded as these libraries reconfigure and reclaim space to meet the needs of today’s research and teaching institutions.