William Noel oversaw the university library’s rare, globally renowned collections and implemented projects and services to support the library’s mission.
William Noel, 58, died after being struck by a van in Scotland. He was Princeton University's Princeton‘s John T. Maltsberger III ’55 Associate University Librarian for Special Collections. .William Noel, a distinguished art history scholar and associate special collections librarian at Princeton University, died after being hit by a van last month in Scotland, officials reported.
In this role, he oversaw the library’s rare, globally renowned collections and implemented projects and services to support the library’s mission.The driver of the van, a 40-year-old man, was arrested and released pending further investigations, police said. He was also the curator of manuscripts and rare books at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and assistant curator of manuscripts at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
“Though Will stopped writing of late, he was an energetic and charming force for manuscript studies with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, and his death has been greeted with dismay by the medievalist community,” Cambridge’s Art History Department said in a statement.
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