BiblioBemused: About & Introduction

Welcome to BiblioBemused, the personal blog of Lukas Miller.

This is a personal blog with no particular target audience (Oops. Blogging 101: have an audience). I hope to eke out these details as time goes on - for now I simply desire to sometimes put my thoughts on a page to put out there for others to see.

About Me & This Blog

I am a privileged (straight, white, male [he/him]), and societally dissatisfied (read: depressed, anxious, nihilistic) Gen X / Millennial with opinions. I aim to bring my identities and passions as a music lover, librarian, socialist, introvert, and resident Saskatchewanian to light.

I aim to make this blog a mix of professional and educational matters. I hope to provide helpful information to my fellow librarians in both clinical and non-clinical contexts and share my experiences toward continuous development and lifelong learning in the library sector.

More about me here.

Scope

A brief overview of what topics you may see addressed on this blog:

Professional

• The Librarians' Toolkit. Part of the aim for this blog is to curate lists of tools and resources commonly used by myself and other librarians. My intent is to critically review and assess popular and emerging products that librarians can use to make their jobs easier.
• Clinical/Medical Librarianship. This is my job. I've found a lot of people (including health-care workers) do not know that clinical/medical librarians even exist. I hope to promote the profession by sharing what we do.
• Information and Digital Literacy. Given the crisis of "fake news" and dissolution of truth by those in positions of power, I plan to use my blog as a platform for combating these vices. 
• Freedom of and Access to Information. The public sphere, and so on.

Personal

• Games. I'm interested in the artistic and cultural impact of video games, as well as trends, issues, and research concerning games and their design.
• Music. Musings on musicology, music history, genres, subcultures, and more.
• Health. My experiences living with depression and anxiety, and my efforts to improve my mental and physical well-being.
• Politics & Current Events. In my aims to be a more communally- and politically-engaged citizen, I plan on sharing my thoughts and opinions on current, local, and newsworthy events in my area. 
• The Internets. The "Internet as a thing", the "Internet as a place", and "Internets of things" are all intriguing concepts with drastic implications for the now as much as in the future. Lets' talk about Internets. 

Why "BiblioBemused"?

I received a Bachelor of Music (B.Mus) from the University of Regina in 2007 and figured I might as well use it for something. Why not the name of my blog!? Now I can at least say I'm putting that little piece of paper to use!