[4] Additionally, her mother occasionally rented rooms to lecturers from a local college to support the family.

[4] The presence of these educated borders further encouraged the Winchell children to explore the world of ideas and academic pursuits.

[5] Winchell's essay was well received upon its publication in 1930, and was recognized by many librarians to be one of the definitive books on interlibrary loans for many years.

[4] Winchell only held this position for a year, before moving to New York to attend library school.

After receiving her Library Science certificate, Winchell took at job with the United States Merchant Marine.

This position required Winchell to travel extensively on the coast of the Eastern United States, where she was responsible for creating- and acquiring books for- lighthouse libraries.

[4] This position lasted for five months, at which time Winchell moved back to Ann Arbor to join the University of Michigan library staff.

During the three years that Winchell was employed by Michigan she worked in the cataloging department, and later as a reference assistant.

[4] In the autumn of 1925, Winchell returned to the United States to accept a job at the Columbia University Library.

Winchell continued to serve as Columbia's head reference librarian until her retirement on June 30, 1962.

In 1960 Winchell was the second person to receive the Isadore Gilbert Mudge Citation for Distinguished Contributions to Reference Librarianship.

Winchell was promoted to this position, and she assumed editorship of the Guide to Reference Books at the same time.

[4] The eighth edition was published in 1967, five years after Winchell's official retirement from Columbia University.

[5] She also visited such disparate foreign lands as Central and South America, the Middle East, and India.