<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The </span><a href="https://eastlibraries.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (EAST) Board of Directors welcomes applications for EAST’s Program Director position. Please see the attached<span class="gmail_default"> job description which is also available on the <a href="https://eastlibraries.org/wp-content/uploads/EAST-Program-Director-Job-Description.pdf" target="_blank">EAST website</a>.</span></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-153964456369088124m_-8161981140019852278m_3582499457375495248gmail-docs-internal-guid-84f97f3b-7fff-14df-ed91-1c34dd6b6fd3"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The current Program Director, Susan Stearns, has taken EAST from the initial Mellon funded project to a stand alone not-for-profit program. She is retiring and the Board of Directors is looking for a dynamic leader with experience and expertise with community stewardship and an understanding of shared print and collective collections, who will work 25-30 hours a week to build upon this strong foundation. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">EAST has over 150 academic and research libraries, across 15 states. Its mission is to maximize retention commitments and facilitate access. Currently there are over 11 million monograph and 37,000 serials and journal EAST retention commitments registered in OCLC WorldCat and the PAPR databases.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">EAST directly addresses the growing need for academic and research libraries to ensure that print books and journals of scholarly value are not inadvertently discarded as libraries undertake necessary weeding and deselection programs to free up space for other library services. By ensuring that scholarly content across the libraries is retained locally on behalf of all EAST members, faculty, students, and scholars can have confidence that they will have access to these resources and that unique and valuable scholarly content is protected in support of teaching, learning, research and scholarship.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Please submit a resume and cover letter to </span><a href="mailto:eastprojectdirector@brandeis.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">eastprogramdirector@brandeis.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. The search will remain open until filled but applications submitted before February 15th will be given first consideration<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">.<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