Elizabeth Breen
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I am a first year SLIS student in the Archives Management concentration. I received my BA in English Literature from College of the Holy Cross in 2024 and my MA in Early Modern English Literature from King’s College London in 2026. I became interested in a career in archives while researching in London and volunteering at the British Jesuit Archives. I currently work at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design as an assistant in the special collections. In my free time I love to read and watercolor!
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January is only a few months away. This means that I find myself once again quantifying the number of books I’ve read this year and calculating how much time I have left to cram more into my self-inflicted quota. This year’s evaluation is even more devastating because I actually tried to implement a strict reading goal: One hundred books in 12 months. Why one hundred? Probably because in January 2026 that felt like a very impressive number to throw around as I started my Library and Information Science degree. Imagine this: I would be combining two pillars of the field: books and data collection. And I would be optimizing the efficiency of one of my favorite hobbies. What sounds better than taking a relaxing hobby than making it incredibly stressful and a massive problem every week? I wrote down my plan optimistically. Two books a week, eight to nine books a month. One hundred books a year. But within the inaugural month, I began to fall behind. The first book I read was about 700…
