2026 Fall DLC: NAL Tools: Practical Strategies for Navigating USDA Information

  • Duration: 56 minutes
  • Date Recorded: September 22, 2026

Speakers

  • Kirstin Nelson, Senior Law Librarian, National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Description

Discover how the National Agricultural Library (NAL) helps users access authoritative USDA information across the full range of agriculture and food topics. This session introduces practical strategies for working with NAL’s key discovery tools, including AGRICOLA, PubAg, and Ag Data Commons, and highlights how the National Agricultural Library Thesaurus (NALT) and Special Collections can support historical research on agricultural and food issues. Created for Government information librarians, this session offers effective methods for locating USDA scientific and historical resources to meet the needs of library users.

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