Director of Research and Instruction, Associate Librarian
Matthew Weirick Johnson is an Associate Librarian and the Director of Research & Instruction at the University of South Florida Libraries on the Tampa campus. They're the editor of Training Library Instructors (forthcoming from ACRL in fall 2024). They serve on the editorial boards of College & Research Libraries, Public Services Quarterly, and ACRL’s CHOICE, and have published in The Journal of Academic Librarianship, College & Research Libraries, Journal of Library Administration, Library Trends, Reference Services Review and others on various topics including academic librarian burnout, library instruction, and information literacy.
Primary Areas of Focus
- Research & Instruction Services
- Information Literacy Institute (for USF Faculty)
Education
- Master of Science in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Bachelor of English in Literature & Language, Virginia Tech
Research Interests
- Academic Librarian Burnout
- Library Management
- Library Instruction
- Measurement
Websites
Selected Publications
- Johnson, M. W. (2024). Keeping up with…burnout. ACRL. Retrieved June 25, 2024, from https://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/burnout
- Johnson, M. W. (2024). Academic instruction librarians’ feelings of job control: Quantitative analysis of responses to a job control inventory. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 50(1), 102835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102835
- Johnson, M. W. & Abumeeiz, S. (2023). The limits of inclusion in open access: Accessible access, universal design, and open educational resources. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 11(1), eP14399. https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.14399
- Johnson, M. W. (2023). Job control and its impacts on burnout in academic instruction librarians. Journal of Library Administration, 63(5), 595–632. https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2023.2219601