From the Editor

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With this first issue of the new year, I'm pleased to welcome a new member of the editorial board. David Flaxbart, Chemistry Librarian at the University of Texas, Austin, will lend his expertise to this journal.

This is also a good time to take stock of where things stand with ISTL. In 1999 we had over 30,000 visits to the ISTL home page. That seems a respectable number for a specialized journal.

Our most popular articles of the past year dealt mostly with technology-related issues. The top ten list includes:

1. Chemistry Resources on the Internet (Winter 1998)
2. Electronic Journals as a Component of the Digital Library (Spring 1999)
3. Ruminations on the Sci-Tech Serials Crisis (Fall 1998)
4. Guide to Computer Science Internet Sources (Summer 1997)
5. You Can't Get There from Here: Issues in Remote Access to Electronic Journals for a Health Sciences Library (Spring 1999)
6. Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Journals: A Bibliographic Essay of Current Issues (Spring 1999)
7. Scientific Literacy Skills for Non-Science Librarians: Bootstrap Training (Fall 1999)
8. Science in the Twilight Zone; Or, Are Science Libraries Related to Science (Fall 1998)
9. Library Staffing Considerations in the Age of Technology: Basic Elements for Managing Change (Fall 1999)
10. Learning Our Limits: The Science Libraries at Duke University Retreat to Respond to Our Changing Environment (Fall 1999)

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