Definition of "reading-room" [reading-room]

• An apartment appropriated to reading; a room furnished withnewspapers, periodicals, etc., to which persons resort for reading. (noun)
• A room or closet set apart for the use of professional proof-readers. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It was with regret that he ceased from writing to study, that he ceased from study to go to the library, that he tore himself away from that chart-room of knowledge or from the magazines in the reading-room that were filled with the secrets of writers who succeeded in selling their wares."
• "He wrote prolifically, intensely, from morning till night, and late at night, except when he broke off to go to the reading-room, draw books from the library, or to call on Ruth."
• "Unswayed by the presence in the council chamber of a double-page "pin-up" in colour of the Swedish film star Anita Ekberg, Oxford City Council yesterday refused by a substantial majority to ask the Library Committee to reconsider its decision not to take "Picture Post" in the reading-room of the public library."