“The Business of Building the United States Capitol” with Guy Gugliotta, the author of Freedom's Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War From its nine-million-pound cast-iron dome to the dazzling opulence of the President’s Room and the Senate corridors, the U.S. Capitol is a triumph of both engineering and […]
Month: March 2013
A Call Number by any other Name . . .
Pressmark? Or what about shelfmark? They sound old-fashioned, bringing mental images of cupboards ("presses") and shelves where books are stored. "Call number" isn't just a modern term; it has geographical implications, too: the OED cites it as "orig. U.S." and it still seems more common in the United States, while in Great Britain these magical […]