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Previous decade: 1900s
1910s
1911 - Theresa Elmendorf becomes first female president of the American Library Association.
1914 - Future esteemed librarian and educator Margaret Monroe born.
1915 - Legislation establishing the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress is partially written by Dr. Charles McCarthy.
1915 - Harvard's Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library opens
1916 - Henry Eduard Legler, chief librarian at the Chicago Public Library, proposes a comprehensive branch system for the library.
1918-1919 - Librarians go to extraordinary efforts to to help the World War I cause.
Next decade: 1920s
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