[5] Joyce was invited to join the NSW School Library Service in 1956, by the "founding" officer-in-charge, Elizabeth Hill.
These included publication of the Children's Book List.,[8] Literature and the Reading Programme .,[9] and the Central cataloguing bulletin,[10] the precursor to SCAN.
[13][14] In 1970 Joyce coordinated a conference on school libraries as part of the World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession forum which was held in Sydney.
influencing the movement to establish the International Association of School Librarianship which was formed the following year.
In 2007 Joyce established the Ruth Marion Fardell Bursary[16] at the University of Sydney for students in wheelchairs, in memory of her mother.