 In 1926, Margaret Scoggin graduated from Radcliffe College and shortly after took a summer job at the New York Public Library.Her hard work and growing devotion to librarianship, as well as her emergent friendship with superintendent of Work with Schools Mabel Williams, gave her the opportunity to quickly move up and garner more responsibility.By 1928, Scoggin was already presenting a paper at an American Library Association conference, and by 1929 had begun attending class at the School of Librarianship at the University of London.