Folger's New Director: Both Borrower & Lender From: The Washington Post | Date: March 7, 2002| Author: Jacqueline Trescott | Copyright 2002 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Gail Kern Paster adopted the reading room at the Folger Shakespeare Library as her favorite spot for research three decades ago.

"In those days you got assigned to a desk; nowadays you find a place," she remembers. "There was a woman named Dorothy Mason who had been at the Folger for years. She had this schoolmistress persona and she cast her eye around the room. I walked in in a miniskirt and was awed. And I am still awed."

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