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  • Remembering Joan M. Friedman

    It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of Joan M. Friedman on 14 February 2026. With professional talents spanning rare book curation and general accounting, Joan was an ardent early supporter of Rare Book School (RBS) and a long-serving Treasurer from 2007 to 2019.  

    Her early association with RBS goes back to its Columbia University origins at the School of Library Service, co-teaching the illustration processes course (I-20) with Terry Belanger from 1983 into the late 1980s. That class annually made a highly memorable field trip to New Haven, where Joan was Curator of Rare Books at the Yale Center for British Art.  […]

    Posted on February 19, 2026 by RBS

  • Impact Story: Marshall Scholars Piper Farmer & Jack Wallace

    When the Marshall Scholarship program announced its new cohort of scholars in fall 2025, the list included two Rare Book School staff members: Summer Session Assistant Piper Farmer and Program Assistant Jack Wallace. Wallace and Farmer were selected from a nationwide pool of more than 1,000 applicants, representing numerous professional and academic fields, to receive this prestigious honor. According to the Marshall website, the scholarship aims “to enable intellectually distinguished young Americans, their country’s future leaders, to study in the UK.”  

    Farmer is completing a degree in Literatures in English, with a minor in History of Art and Creative Writing, […]

    Posted on February 16, 2026 by Katie Hodges-Kluck
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