Editing Folger Shakespeare Library (section)

====Reading Room====
[[File:Folger's Paster Reading Room.jpg|thumb|[[Gail Kern Paster]] Reading Room]]

The Reading Room officially opened in January 1933 and today contains reference works for easy accessibility to readers. From 1977 to 1983, the Folger Shakespeare Library was renovated. Design was provided by Hartman-Cox Architects. During this renovation, it included the addition of new book stacks, renovation of office spaces, and an expansion to the Reading Room.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Folger Shakespeare Library|url = http://www.hartmancox.com/folger-shakespeare-library|website = Hartman-Cox Architects|access-date = 2016-01-12|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083044/http://www.hartmancox.com/folger-shakespeare-library|archive-date = 2016-03-04}}</ref> A second, more modern reading room dedicated as the Theodora Sedgwick Bond-[[William R. Bond|William Ross Bond]] Memorial Reading Room was completed in 1982.<ref name=Grant2014-196>{{harvnb|Grant|2014|p=196}}</ref> Upon [[Gail Kern Paster]]'s retirement as director of the Folger in 2011, the original reading room was renamed the Gail Kern Paster Reading Room.{{sfn|Grant|2014|p=203}}

Henry Folger wanted the Library's reading room to feel at once like a private home and the Great Hall of an English college. It features stained-glass windows and a large stone fireplace which has never been used. The large stained-glass window overlooking what is now the Gail Kern Paster Reading Room was designed and created by [[Nicola D'Ascenzo]], who depicted the familiar "[[Seven Ages of Man]]" soliloquy from ''[[As You Like It]]''.{{sfn|Grant|2014|p=154}}