1) LLAGNY was founded in 1938 and held its first meeting that year. 2) Over the following 65 years, LLAGNY witnessed many technological advancements like the development of computers, the internet, and legal research databases like LexisNexis and Westlaw. 3) LLAGNY has grown into one of the largest AALL chapters with over 800 members at its peak and has helped members adapt to changes in the legal information industry through educational programs.

1. LLAGNY’S 65 YEARS:
YEARS A TIMELINE
First LLAGNY
LLAGNY Newsletter, 1938 meeting held
November 17
“Information
Information
LLAGNY Bylaws and
Bulletin,” debuts 1939 Constitution
adopted
Beginnings of
1940
9 0 First color TV
broadcast
“Information Science”
as we know it today 1941 First calculating
machine with
automatic control
built in Germany
1942

2. LLAGNY’S 65 YEARS:
YEARS A TIMELINE
Mark I is completed and 1943
first programmer is
hired 1944 June 6th D-Day
Normandy France
American futurist LLAGNY Post-War
Post-
foresees the 1945
9 Planning
invention of hypertext Committee created
1946 Term “bit” for binary
NYCRR now available; digit is used for
Ocean Publications is the first time by
started 1947 John Tukey

3. LLAGNY’S 65 YEARS:
YEARS A TIMELINE
New York hosts AALL LLAGNY hosts
41st Annual Meeting 1948 demonstration of
microcard reader
1949 LLAGNY becomes a
chapter of AALL
First Joint Computer Value of Law
Conference held
1950
9 0 Librarians to the
legal profession is
IBM sued by DOJ for LLAGNY meeting
monopolizing punch-
punch- 1951 topic
cards
Revision of standards
1952 for Law school
libraries discussed

4. LLAGNY’S 65 YEARS:
YEARS A TIMELINE
First information High speed printer
retrieval system on a 1953 invented by
g
general purpose
p p Remington-Rand
Remington-
g
computer announced.
1954 Gene Amdahl
develops first
operating system
g
SAGE, first major online 1955
9 for IBM 704
system, for air Government antitrust
suit against IBM is
defense application 1956 settled
announced
Smith-Corona makes
Smith-
portable electronic 1957 AALUNY created
typewriter

5. LLAGNY’S 65 YEARS:
YEARS A TIMELINE
First electronic Luhn at IBM creates
computers built in 1958 automatic
Japan by NEC
p y document indexing g
program (KWIC)
1959
First removable disks
appear 1960
960 XEROX commercial
copier introduced
First IBM transistorized 1961 Telstar
computer with 64-bit
64- communication
data paths, satellite becomes
operational until 1971 1962 active

6. LLAGNY’S 65 YEARS:
YEARS A TIMELINE
Controversial graphics LC develops MARC
consoles developed 1963
resulting in CAD
g BASIC is created and
1964 first time-sharing
time-
Demonstration at basic program run
ABA annual meeting of McKinney s
McKinney’s statutes
retrieving health-
health- 1965
96 put on magnetic
related statutes, regs tape. Potential of
and city ordinances 1966 electronic research
from a mainframe for legislative docs
computer discussed by
1967 LLAGNY members

7. LLAGNY’S 65 YEARS:
YEARS A TIMELINE
Computerworld first LLAGNY newsletter
issue published 1968 becomes “Law
Lines”
First International Joint 1969 The as-yet unnamed
as-
Conference on CALR system is
Artificial Intelligence demonstrated
Mead Data Central 1970
9 0 publicly for the
created first time at a NYC
press conference
Floppy disks introduced 1971
to load the IBM 370
microde First electronic
1972 pocket calculator

8. LLAGNY’S 65 YEARS:
YEARS A TIMELINE
Mead Data Center AALL begins student
introduces Lexis 1973 memberships
The New York Times 1974 3-M develops Post-It
Post-
Information Bank Notes
produces first public Westlaw introduced
access online 1975
9 Radio Shack markets
newspaper abstract first pre-assembled
pre-
and index service
1976 personal computer
LLAGNY members
First ComputerLand tour Library of
store opens in NJ as 1977 Congress
Computer Shack

9. LLAGNY’S 65 YEARS:
YEARS A TIMELINE
Conversion to AALL Code of ethics
Microfiche—
Microfiche—a new 1978 is adopted
way to store
y
documents presented
to LLAGNY members
1979 The Source and
CompuServe
Information
Total computers in use 1980
980 Services go on-line
on-
in US exceeds one ABA Journal article
million
1981 discusses cost-
cost-
effectiveness of
One time license fee for using CALR
Westlaw is $400 1982 LLAGNY produces
first union list

10. LLAGNY’S 65 YEARS:
YEARS A TIMELINE
Westlaw Interface for Total computers in
IBM Displaywriter 1983 the US exceeds 10
introduced million units
Apple introduces Mac 1984 First Law Library
LLAGNY adopts ILL code Publication Award
LLAGNY is the largest presented
AALL chapter with 1985
98 AALL annual meeting
845 members held at the NY
Hilton
1986
NJLLA becomes
approved as 27th LLAGNY incorporates
AALL chapter 1987 as a non-profit
non-

11. LLAGNY’S 65 YEARS:
YEARS A TIMELINE
LLAGNY officers and Nondestructive worm
articles highlighted in 1988 spreads via the
AALL Chapter News
p Internet to infect
several thousand
1989 computers
Special Committee on
National Information
Policy approves 1990
990 Microsoft introduces
Government Relations Windows 3.0
policy for information
industries
1991 Millionth LexisNexis
user id is issued
AALL annual meeting in LLAGNY re-organizes
re-
San Francisco largest 1992 board and
to date committee chairs

12. LLAGNY’S 65 YEARS:
YEARS A TIMELINE
FREESTYLE, new plain-
plain- LLAGNY members
English search style 1993 participate in 1st
introduced on Lexis annual Legal
g
Research Teach-In
Teach-
1994 held in conjunction
Lexis introduces world
wide web site with National
BNA pledges $40,000 for 1995
99 Library Week
b k
two years for
AALL Spectrum is
publication of AALL s
AALL’s 1996 launched
Law Library Journal
Smaller publishers begin LLAGNY announces
to disappear as West 1997 own list-serv and
list-
and Lexis grow home page

13. LLAGNY’S 65 YEARS:
YEARS A TIMELINE
LLAGNY co-sponsors
co- Y2K plans are being
LegalWorks New York 1998 discussed
AALL adopts “Ethical 1999 Law firm Intranets
Principles” introduced at
LLAGNY education
LLAGNY approves
2000 meeting
revised bylaws
2001 AALL membership is
LLAGNY union list goes record high with
online over 5,000
2002 members

14. LLAGNY’S 65 YEARS:
YEARS A TIMELINE
2003-
2003-2004
LLAGNY Celebrates
65 Years