It has been two years since I started this blog with the observation that “What the world needs now is another library weblog like I need a hole in my head.”

The biggest event for the blog in the past year was moving from being hosted on the servers at Colorado College to the nice new digs here at stevelawson.name. Thank you to all of you who followed the blog here, and thanks as well to those who have just started reading recently. It boggles my mind that people want to read what I write; it is simultaneously humbling and gratifying, and making me more of an insufferable egomaniac than ever before.

For the first year of See Also.., the blog was an all-consuming passion. My relationship with the blog this year has been more varied. Sometimes I have been phoning it in. Sometimes neglecting it for weeks at a time. And at least once, I even deleted the entire thing, before restoring from a backup a few hours later. I wonder if I should write more, write less, stop sending linkblog items to the main page, be funnier, be more serious. Lately I think I have learned to relax a bit, finding new ways of thinking about the value of the blog. If that sounds disturbingly like a love affair, so be it.

Looking back to what I wrote a year ago on the first blogversary, I see that I ended with thanks and appreciation for my “imaginary friends,” which is where I intend to end today. I had hoped from the start that the blog would let me engage in conversations and arguments with other library bloggers. I hadn’t anticipated the depths of the friendships I would feel with people I have never met face-to-face.

Thanks, friends. Thanks, readers.