Carl A. Yirka

Teaching at VLS:

Professor and Director of the Julien and Virginia Cornell Library, since 1989.

Leadership and Service:

• Member, Board of Directors, Vermont/Karelia Rule of Law Committee.
• Helped negotiate agreement with sister school, Petrozavodsk State University Law Faculty, Karelia, Russia, and consulted on library and the Internet, since 1993.
• Editor, "Best Legal Reference Books," Law Library Journal, 1988-90.

Other:

• At VLS, oversees the Cornell Library with a growing collection of about 2,300 periodical and serial titles, and 230,000 volumes; a special collection in environmental law; a budget surpassing $1-million; five librarians; and six support staff.
• Project Director, The Vermont Law School and Petrozavodsk State University Law Faculty Legal Education Partnership, 1998-2002. A four-year university partnership partially funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Information Agency under the authority of the Fulbright-Hays Act of 1961, as amended. A second, three-year grant has been funded for the period 2002-2005.
• Associate Librarian and Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School, 1985-89.
• Acquisitions Librarian, Indiana University School of Law, 1983-84.
• Head, Acquisitions Department, Northwestern University School of Law Library, 1978-82.
• Reference Librarian, Chase Law School, Northern Kentucky University, 1975-78.