 Upon graduation, she took a job as school and reference librarian at the George Bruce Branch of the New York Public Library and simultaneously taught at the Library's training school until it transferred to Columbia University in 1932.From 1938-1941, Scoggin began working toward her master's degree at Columbia University's School of Library Science, but never completed her final work for the degree.Instead, encouraged by mentor Mabel Williams, she became the director of the New York Public Library's Nathan Straus Branch for Children and Young People in 1940, and continued to work as superintendent of Work with Young People from 1952 until retirement.