27
Apr

A toast to five amazing years

   Posted by: Greg Schwartz   in Bloggery

Michael Stephens’ post on reaching (and missing) his five-year blogiversary reminds me that I’m in the same place. This blog started under the name Planet Neutral on March 19th, 2003 with a post entitled “Oh great, another blog.” It wouldn’t become Open Stacks for another month.

Much has happened in the five-plus years since. MSLIS completion, relocation, marriage, employment (four different positions in the same organization!), house acquisition, two amazing children, six hundred or so posts, three different podcasts, many conferences and speaking engagements and a gaggle of new friends in library land. Thank you all for being a part of this fascinating journey. Here’s to five more years of wonder, discovery, passion and friendship. Cheers.

And congrats to Michael Stephens for all he has accomplished in the same span. Or should I say Dr. Stephens?

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12 comments so far

David Bigwood
 1 

Congratulations and thanks for all the great content down through the years.

April 27th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Greg
 2 

Cheers, David. Catalogablog was almost definitely amongst the first five feeds I subscribed to back in ‘03. Seems like ages ago.

April 27th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Michael Stephens
 3 

Thanks Greg! Congrats to you!

April 27th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Steve Lawson
 4 

Right on, Greg. Here is to many more years.

April 27th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Greg
 5 

Cheers, Michael and Steve.

I guess it wouldn’t be a full five years if you count those months where I didn’t write anything: July, August, November and December of 2004, February through May of 2007 and, of course, October 2007 through January 2008. Wow, a full year’s worth of months where I wrote nothing here. Of course, those last four I did have another project…

April 28th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Michelle McLean
 6 

Wow, all that time. Well done on your persistence, your perseverence and for sharing your thoughts and discoveries with us. Thank you, I much appreciate it.

April 28th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Greg
 7 

Thanks, Michelle. My persistence has been a bit on the intermittent side, but it always seems to come back around. Thanks for reading!

April 28th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Laura
 8 

Hurray! Hurrah! And congratulations!

April 28th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Mark
 9 

Congrats, Greg!

And glad you’re back in this space along with your other projects.

April 28th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Greg
 10 

@Laura Thanks!

@Mark Thank you, too! We’ll see how long I can keep it up, eh?

April 28th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Connie Crosby
 11 

Congratulations, Greg. You are a whole year ahead of me in the biblioblogosphere. I appreciate your honest, thoughtful nature as well as your appreciation for fun.

Here’s to another 5 years–Cheers!

Connie

April 28th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Greg
 12 

Mazel tov!

April 28th, 2008 at 9:47 pm