College Liaison

• Warner College of Natural Resources (CNR)

Departments

• Fish, Wildlife & Conservation Biology
• Forest, Rangeland & Watershed Stewardship
• Geosciences
• Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
• Natural Resources Ecology Lab (NREL)

Instruction at CSU Libraries

Allison teaches library instruction sessions for the following classes and more.

• Undergraduate natural resources
• Graduate classes, orientation sessions, and Research Rocks Workshops
• ...and others by request.
• Email or call Allison if you would like to arrange a library research presentation

Selected Current Projects

• AgNIC Colorado Rangelands
• AgNIC Wildlife Damage Management
• ARL e-Science Institute
• Metadata Best Practices Task Force
• Morgan Library Science Reference
• AgNIC Coordinating Council
• AgNIC Mentoring Program
• USAIN Past President

Research Interests

• Scholarly Communication and Information Seeking Behavior
• New forms of collaborative communication such as blogs and wikis
• Information Literacy in the Sciences
• BANR Blog (library resources for the biological sciences, agriculture, natural resources)
• Colorado Agriculture and Rural Life Bibliography Project 1820-1945 (NEH grant)

Education

• BS Public Administration; University of Arkansas
• MEd Higher Education Administration and Student Personnel; Kent State University
• MLS; Emporia State University

Current Publications

• Allison V. Level and Sierra Standish, 2007. "Standing on the Shoulders of Others: Taking an Agricultural Bibliography Project into the Twenty-First Century” Journal of Agricultural and Food Information 8(1) pp.15- 33.
• Allison V. Level and Joanna Blair, 2006. “Holding On To Our Own: Factors Affecting the Recruitment and Retention of Science Librarians” Science and Technology Libraries 27(1/2) pp. 185-202.
• Allison V. Level, 2006, “Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.” In Information Literacy Instruction That Works: a guide to teaching by discipline and student population. (ed. Patrick Ragains) Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc, pp.221-231.
• Catherine Cranston and Allison V. Level, 2006. “Forward Progress One-step at a Time: Instruction Workshops, Assessment, and the Reference Connection” Public Services Quarterly 2(2/3), pp.19-32.
• Tamera Jahnke and Allison V. Level, 2005 “Expanding your Horizons: A model for Engaging Middle School Girls in Science and Mathematics” Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 11(2), 171-180.
• Allison V. Level and Michelle Mach, 2005. “Peer Mentoring: One Institution’s Approach to Mentoring Academic Librarians” Library Management 26 (6-7), pp. 301-310.
• Douglas J. Ernest, Allison V. Level, Michael Culbertson, 2005. “Information Seeking Behavior For Recreational Activities and its Implications for Libraries" Reference Services Review 33(1), pp. 88-103.
• Allison V. Level and Keith Gresham, 2004. Introduction, ACRL Instruction Section. Information Literacy and the Technological Transformation of Higher Education: Papers and Documents for the ACRL Instruction Section Think Tank III. Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press, 2004. pp. vii-ix.
• Allison V. Level and Catherine L. Cranston, 2003, “Enticing Faculty to Library Instruction Workshops”, Academic Exchange Quarterly Winter 2003 7(4), pp. 176-179.
• Allison Level and Sarah Myers, 2003, “Creating Internal Web Tools for Collection Development.” Collection Building 22(4), pp.162-166 .