Thesaurus from – and for – the Farm

February 1, 2011 / Melody Smith /

February 1, 2011 – The USDA has announced release of the 2011 edition of the on-line NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (NALT). This release adds 3,441 new terms and 321 definitions to these vocabulary tools.

Per their web article, “USDA’s National Agricultural Library Releases 2011 Edition of Thesaurus,” terminology in the new edition has been expanded in areas associated with nanotechnology, food safety risk assessment and sustainable agriculture.

The primary uses of the thesaurus and glossary are indexing and improving the retrieval of agricultural information, as well as a resource for students, teachers, writers, etc. who are seeking precise definitions of words from the agricultural sciences.

The NALT has a great reputation for being a thorough resource and would stand on its own as a great example of good cataloging.  

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

1 Comment

  1. Helen Bredson on June 6, 2011 at 8:40 am

    Thesaurus and dictionary are really useful tools, I sometimes use them in different cases.
    By the way, I also use few online tools, for example english thesaurus.