William Leonard Joyce

Bill Joyce (elected April 1986) died June 6, 2021. Joyce, a leader in the library world for more than half a century, came to AAS in 1972, serving as curator of manuscripts and later, director of education. He then worked in rare books and special collections at the New York Public Library, Princeton University, and Pennsylvania State University. He was president of the Society of American Archivists and chair of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Joyce coedited (with David Hall, elected April 1981; Richard D. Brown, elected April 1981; and John Hench, elected October 1985) the AAS volume Printing and Society in Early America (1983).