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Welcome to the new National Agricultural Library email list!
Through these newsletters, we hope to connect with our customers—both local and distant—to share our knowledge and improve our customers’ experience. User experience is a topic that is of great interest to me and the staff at the National Agricultural Library. We are working hard to improve our customers’ experience. We think that it starts at the front door—whether that door is located at 10301 Baltimore Avenue or https://nal.usda.gov
We have a lot to share.
We continue to expand digital access to our historical collection of printed agricultural monographs, reports, pamphlets, brochures, and other media. We have digitized over 7.5 million images from 160,000 publications. These materials are featured in several digital exhibits and web sites. We add digital and digitized content on a daily basis.
You may be interested in the USDA Pomological Collection, which includes paintings like the one above. Explore this collection and many more in our National Agricultural Library Digital Collections (NALDC): https://naldc-legacy.nal.usda.gov/naldc/home.xhtml. (You can even test-drive the new NALDC beta web site: https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/)
We’re also leading the way in providing access to publicly-available, USDA-funded scientific research data through our Ag Data Commons platform (https://data.nal.usda.gov/). Ag Data Commons brings together and describes a wide variety of datasets relevant to agricultural research and related domains.
And this year, the National Agricultural Library is celebrating 50 years in Beltsville, Maryland!
One of many celebration events you may be interested in is a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon happening September 20. We hope you’ll join us. See the Eventbrite page for more information, or to register. (Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/50-years-in-beltsville-a-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-to-celebrate-the-nal-tickets-70183000243 )
There’s so much more to see and experience—both in person at the library and on-line.
We’ll share both with you in these monthly (or bi-monthly) emails. We’d love to hear from you. What kinds of things are you interested in seeing from our Library? Drop us a line at AgRef@ars.usda.gov
Sincerely,
Paul
Paul M. Wester, Jr.
Director, National Agricultural Library
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