Abby Edgecumbe
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My name is Abby Edgecumbe, and I started at SLIS in Fall 2025. I am in the libraries/librarianship concentration, and I’m interested in both public and academic libraries. Currently, I work at the Schlesinger Library, which is a part of the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute, as a Reading Room Assistant. I’m originally from Connecticut, and I got my undergrad in California. I am passionate about the role of LIS in responding to climate change and fostering community resilience. Before coming to SLIS, I earned an MA in Literature from UMASS Amherst, during which I worked at the local public library. Now, I live in Brookline and spend all my money at the Brookline Booksmith. Outside of school and work, I love to read, go on walks, and play mahjong!
Entries by Abby Edgecumbe
Going to Simmons ends up involving a lot more than going to school. While yes, I go to class and do homework and stress about final projects, the Simmons equation is more complicated. Kind of like an upper-division math class. Making and maintaining friendships, navigating the city, searching for work, networking, hobbies; all these things merge and form this crazy equation with square roots, imaginary numbers, exponents. And coming from a girl who hasn’t taken nary a lower-division math class in over seven-ish years, that’s saying something. For my first post on the Snippets, I thought I’d walk you through a day of me trying to solve that equation. The day I’m writing this, a Thursday, begins at the very unpleasant hour of 5:30am (if you are a recovering 11am waker-upper, you will understand the significance of this for me). On Thursdays, I work four hours at my job at the Schlesinger Library in Cambridge, beginning at 9am. Turns out, I like a morning, so I get up with enough hours to shower, watch a…
