A Virtuous Circle of Scholarship

Abstract

If I read three books every week this year, all published by Cornell University Press, I will keep up with its current rate of production. But I will still be leaving untouched its legacy of nearly 7,000 titles published over the last 150 years. Cornell University Library has always had a strong relationship with Cornell University Press. As you will read in Karen Laun’s excellent history, in 1869 Daniel Willard Fiske was the fi rst university librarian as well as the fi rst director of the press. He was also a professor of North European languages and established by bequest a series published by Cornell relating to Iceland and the Icelandic Collection he had founded. Its latest volume, Islandica 59 (2016), can be purchased in print from the press or downloaded free of charge from the library’s online institutional repository, eCommons. Perhaps like me you are unsure which format you would prefer but grateful that you have a choice. A Virtuous Circle of Scholarship