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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