Preservation & Access. These two words sum up my professional philosophy and show my reason for pursuing a MLIS and wanting to work in this field as an archivist. These two words became important to me during my undergrad and became even more important during my MLIS. What I hope to be able to contribute to as an archivist is the preservation of information both historical and current. I wish to then take that preserved info and give as much access to it as possible, whether that be digitally or with the physical work.  This became a passion for me only in my senior year during my undergraduate studies in 2020. My undergraduate Major was in History with a Minor in Anthropology so history & culture and how people interact with their history & culture is of huge importance to me. 2020 started off with an internship, working with a professor at Eastern Connecticut State University. This internship I worked on a Native American Lithic Collection that had been donated to the CT state Archeologists office. I want to also add that the local Pequot Tribe was contacted about the collection and gave the CT state archeologist permission to handle the collection due to budget and time on their end. This internship entailed cleaning, identifying, and cataloging some 4,04,000-pre-contactthic (stone tools) Pequot artifacts found in CT. At the end of the internship, I filled out State of Connecticut archaeological site designation forms for where the artifacts were found. That created my love of preservation, taking care of artifacts for the future, the next step was access. This interest started when I was told that the collection would be housed on campus at ECSU in their library on the 4th floor and would be a “request access” item. Meaning that people had to basically know about the collection and had to go access it in person, this was at the height of COVID where many buildings were closed, and I was even doing school online at that point. So, to solve that problem I took an independent study my final semester to build a website for the collection to act as an online catalog and to have a few online exhibits showing off some of the more unique items in more depth.  In my time working I managed to put 301 items out of 4000 from the collection onto the site. Unfortunately, after a few years of the site being built up the school changed its web-site building provider, and due to budget, I nor my professor in charge of the collection could continue with the site. The site being gone now only solidifies my philosophy of preservation & access for the future. Becoming a librarian and being a librarian to me means preserving knowledge that could be lost if not cared for and forgotten if not given access to. It is my hope that I am able to bring my professional philosophy with me to wherever I have the privilege to work in the near future.