[2] After working for two years as an assistant cataloger at the Pratt Institute Free Library[2] she was appointed "chief instructor" at the Pratt Institute Library School in 1895 under Mary Wright Plummer.

[3] When Plummer went to the New York Public Library to establish its Training Class in 1911, Rathbone was appointed vice-director of the Pratt Institute school, a position she held until she retired in 1938.

Rathbone was active in state and local professional associations serving as secretary of the New York State Library Association and president of the New York Library Club.

[4] In 1931–1932 she was president of the American Library Association (ALA).

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