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  • 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

  • Impact Story: Cataloging Medieval Manuscript Fragments in Chicago

    Medieval manuscript fragments can be particularly challenging to catalog: they are severed from their original codicological contexts, exist in various states of preservation, differ in size, and many times have been incorporated in situ as pastedowns or binding strengtheners within later books. Cataloging such items can be a time-consuming process, though with the rewarding outcome of piecing together missing parts of a puzzle. For Chicago librarians Megan Kelly and Rebecca Flore, Rare Book School has been integral to helping them do this work as they strive to make the medieval collections in their respective libraries more accessible to researchers.  […]

    Posted on February 12, 2026 by RBS
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