She then moved to Berkeley to major in English at the University of California . After graduating with a B.A in English in 1938 , she studied at the School of Librarianship at the University of Washington in Seattle , where she earned a degree in librarianship in 1939 .
After graduating with a BA in English in 1938 from the University of California at Berkeley , she studied at the School of Librarianship at the University of Washington in Seattle , where she earned a degree in library science in 1939 .