The last year of the millennium was one of transitions for the Archives.

Technology continued to alter the way we did our work. For the first time, significant numbers of people were using the guides, documents and other materials at our Web site to either avoid visiting the physical archives at all or at to spend much less time in Reading Room. Also, just as our catalog had been replaced by a computer-generated microfiche in 1985, now the microfiche (which could be used only in the Reading Room) was replaced by an online database usable via the Internet anywhere in the world.

The year also marked changes in human terms, as Jan Nasgowitz, reference archivist for ten years and a member of the Archives staff for almost nineteen, retired. Her humanity and Christian love had benefitted many researchers to which microfiche and data bytes were irrelevant indeed.

We had a new opportunity for service as a visitor came from Hong Kong to learn the archivist's craft as part of our larger joint task of preserving the records of Christ's church. And she helped us as much as we helped her.

And, as in every year, researchers used our collections, reference questions were answered, collections were processed (described and arranged). The old and new are mixed together as we continue our work of making available to all our documents which tell one small part of the history of the spread of the Good News. And so, using html commands and .jpg files instead of typewriter and scissors, we present the record of our work in 1999.