LLAGNY

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LLAGNYS 65 YEARS A TIMELINE

• LLAGNY Newsletter, Information Bulletin, debuts
  
• Beginnings of Information Science as we know it
  today

• First LLAGNY meeting held November 17
• LLAGNY Bylaws and Constitution adopted
• First color TV broadcast
• First calculating machine with automatic control
  built in Germany

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LLAGNYS 65 YEARS A TIMELINE

• Mark I is completed and first programmer is hired
• American futurist foresees the invention of
  hypertext
• NYCRR now available Ocean Publications is
  started

• June 6th D-Day Normandy France
• LLAGNY Post-War Planning Committee created
• Term bit for binary digit is used for the first
  time by John Tukey

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LLAGNYS 65 YEARS A TIMELINE

• New York hosts AALL 41st Annual Meeting
• First Joint Computer Conference held
• IBM sued by DOJ for monopolizing punch-cards

• LLAGNY hosts demonstration of microcard reader
• LLAGNY becomes a chapter of AALL
• Value of Law Librarians to the legal profession
  is LLAGNY meeting topic
• Revision of standards for Law school libraries
  discussed

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LLAGNYS 65 YEARS A TIMELINE

• First information retrieval system on a general
  purpose computer announced.
• SAGE, first major online system, for air defense
  application announced
• Smith-Corona makes portable electronic
  typewriter

• High speed printer invented by Remington-Rand
• Gene Amdahl develops first operating system for
  IBM 704
• Government antitrust suit against IBM is settled
• AALUNY created

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LLAGNYS 65 YEARS A TIMELINE

• First electronic computers built in Japan by NEC
• First removable disks appear
• First IBM transistorized computer with 64-bit
  data paths, operational until 1971

• Luhn at IBM creates automatic document indexing
  program (KWIC)
• XEROX commercial copier introduced
• Telstar communication satellite becomes active

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LLAGNYS 65 YEARS A TIMELINE

• Controversial graphics consoles developed
  resulting in CAD
• Demonstration at
• ABA annual meeting of retrieving health- related
  statutes, regs and city ordinances from a
  mainframe computer

• LC develops MARC
• BASIC is created and first time-sharing basic
  program run
• McKinneys statutes put on magnetic tape.
  Potential of electronic research for legislative
  docs discussed by LLAGNY members

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LLAGNYS 65 YEARS A TIMELINE

• Computerworld first issue published
• First International Joint Conference on
  Artificial Intelligence
• Mead Data Central created
• Floppy disks introduced to load the IBM 370
  microde

• LLAGNY newsletter becomes Law Lines
• The as-yet unnamed CALR system is demonstrated
  publicly for the first time at a NYC press
  conference
• First electronic pocket calculator

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LLAGNYS 65 YEARS A TIMELINE

• Mead Data Center introduces Lexis
• The New York Times Information Bank produces
  first public access online newspaper abstract and
  index service
• First ComputerLand store opens in NJ as Computer
  Shack

• AALL begins student memberships
• 3-M develops Post-It Notes
• Westlaw introduced
• Radio Shack markets first pre-assembled
  personal computer
• LLAGNY members tour Library of Congress

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LLAGNYS 65 YEARS A TIMELINE

• Conversion to Microfichea new way to store
  documents presented to LLAGNY members
• Total computers in use in US exceeds one million
• One time license fee for Westlaw is 400

• AALL Code of ethics is adopted
• The Source and CompuServe Information Services go
  on-line
• ABA Journal article discusses cost-effectiveness
  of using CALR
• LLAGNY produces first union list

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LLAGNYS 65 YEARS A TIMELINE

• Westlaw Interface for IBM Displaywriter
  introduced
• Apple introduces Mac
• LLAGNY adopts ILL code
• LLAGNY is the largest AALL chapter with 845
  members
• NJLLA becomes approved as 27th AALL chapter

• Total computers in the US exceeds 10 million
  units
• First Law Library Publication Award presented
• AALL annual meeting held at the NY Hilton
• LLAGNY incorporates as a non-profit

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LLAGNYS 65 YEARS A TIMELINE

• LLAGNY officers and articles highlighted in AALL
  Chapter News
• Special Committee on National Information Policy
  approves Government Relations policy for
  information industries
• AALL annual meeting in San Francisco largest to
  date

• Nondestructive worm spreads via the Internet to
  infect several thousand computers
• Microsoft introduces Windows 3.0
• Millionth LexisNexis user id is issued
• LLAGNY re-organizes board and committee chairs

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LLAGNYS 65 YEARS A TIMELINE

• FREESTYLE, new plain-English search style
  introduced on Lexis
• Lexis introduces world wide web site
• BNA pledges 40,000 for two years for publication
  of AALLs Law Library Journal
• Smaller publishers begin to disappear as West and
  Lexis grow

• LLAGNY members participate in 1st annual Legal
  Research Teach-In held in conjunction with
  National Library Week
• AALL Spectrum is launched
• LLAGNY announces own list-serv and home page

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LLAGNYS 65 YEARS A TIMELINE

• LLAGNY co-sponsors LegalWorks New York
• AALL adopts Ethical Principles
• LLAGNY approves revised bylaws
• LLAGNY union list goes online

• Y2K plans are being discussed
• Law firm Intranets introduced at LLAGNY education
  meeting
• AALL membership is record high with over 5,000
  members

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LLAGNYS 65 YEARS A TIMELINE

• 2003-2004
• LLAGNY Celebrates
• 65 Years