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 (ACRL, 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
• Artful, speculative, and post qualitative inquiry

Websites

• Personal Academic Website
• ORCiD
• Google Scholar Profile
• Web of Science ResearcherID
• Scopus Author ID

Selected Publications

• Johnson, M. W. (2025). Job Control, Library Instruction, and Burnout: A Quantitative Analysis of Academic Instruction Librarians’ Experiences of Job Control While Teaching. College & Research Libraries, 86(1), 50.
• Johnson, M., & Page, S. (2024). Perspectives: The Burden of Proving Burnout in Academic Library Workers. Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 10, 1-13.
• 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