The 2025 EAST Member Meeting took place Wednesday, October 15th, 2025.This meeting included updates from the EAST Director as well as lightning talks, breakout rooms and a panel discussion on upcoming retention commitment renewal dates. The main room updates, lightning talks and panel discussion were recorded.
Lightning Talk topics were:
- Deteriorating retained print titles
- Google Books at Union College
- Toward a Retention Workflow in Alma
- Rescue Collecting
- EAST – Where we have been and where should we go
Panel Members were:
- Matthew Revitt, Special Collections and Maine Shared Collections Librarian, University of Maine
- Katya Pereyaslavska, Coordinator COPPUL SPAN & North/Nord
- Alison Wohlers, West Program Manager
In addition there were breakout room discussions on the following topics with a focus on the relationship to shared print. While these rooms were not recorded, the open notes docs are linked below.
- EAST nuts and bolts
- What we’d like to see EAST do next
- Deteriorating print retentions
- Scope – outdated and/or offensive – what should EAST be doing?
- Prospective Collection Development – what would a pilot look like?
- Digital Sharing – tools & accessibility
- Alma and EAST workflows
- EAST 2031 retention renewals
- Main Meeting Room Q&A
Feedback on the meeting is always welcome.