Matthew Weirick Johnson

Matthew Weirick Johnson, MSLS is the Director of Research & Instruction at the University of South Florida Libraries and a PhD student in Educational Measurement and Evaluation also at USF. You can also view a PDF of my CV.

Education

PhD Candidate in Measurement & Research

  • University of South Florida exp. 2027
  • Certificates:
    Qualitative Research
    Advanced Quantitative Research
    Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies

MA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

  • University of South Florida exp. 2027

MS in Library Science (specialization in Academic Libraries)

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2018
  • Master's Paper:
    “Not playing that game”: An exploratory study of queer men's health information behavior on location-aware dating and sex-seeking mobile applications
    Certificates:
    Interdisciplinary Health Communication
    Interdisciplinary Health Disparities
    SILS Diversity Advocate

BA in English (concentration in Literature)

  • Virginia Tech 2016

Academic Positions

University of South Florida

  • Associate Librarian & Director 2023 – Present
    • Director of Research & Instruction

University of California, Los Angeles

  • Associate Librarian 2019 – 2023
    • Humanities & Social Sciences Librarian 2019 – 2023
    • Lead for Teaching & Learning 2020 – 2023
    • Humanities & Social Sciences Lead for Research Services 2020 – 2022

Publications

A complete list of publications with available open access options can be found on my Research page.

Edited Books

  • Training Library Instructors, Vol 1: A Guide to Training Graduate Students
    Matthew Weirick Johnson (Ed.). ACRL.
  • Training Library Instructors, Vol 2: A Guide to Training Librarians
    Matthew Weirick Johnson (Ed.). ACRL.

Peer-reviewed Articles

2026

  • First, let’s see what they know: The assessment and iterative design of an information literacy tutorial for undergraduate biology students
    Tessa Withorn, Matthew Weirick Johnson, Amber Willenborg. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship.
  • Insights from a burnout debate: Occupational health psychology for academic librarianship
    Matthew Weirick Johnson. portal: Libraries and the Academic.
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2025

  • Job control, library instruction, and burnout: A quantitative analysis of academic instruction librarians’ experiences of job control while teaching
    Matthew Weirick Johnson. College & Research Libraries.
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2024

  • The burden of proving burnout in academic library workers
    Matthew Weirick Johnson, Sylvia Page. Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship.
  • Use of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory among US academic librarians: Examining construct validity through factor structure and model fit
    Matthew Weirick Johnson. The Journal of Academic Librarianship.
  • Academic instruction librarians' feelings of job control: Quantitative analysis of responses to a job control inventory
    Matthew Weirick Johnson. The Journal of Academic Librarianship.
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2023

  • The limits of inclusion in open access: Accessible access, universal design, and open educational resources
    Matthew Weirick Johnson, Salma Abumeeiz. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.
  • Job control and its impacts on burnout in academic instruction librarians
    Matthew Weirick Johnson. Journal of Library Administration.
  • Collaborative research services: A peer-led cohort approach
    Matthew Weirick Johnson, Estéfani Bowline, Diana Leigh King, Antonia Osuna-Garcia, Sylvia Page, Alohie Tadesse, Maggie Tarmey, Matthew Vest. Reference Services Review.
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2021

  • The Community Workshop Series: A case study for community-engaged learning in LIS
    Matthew Weirick Johnson, Meggie Lasher. Library Trends.
  • Collaborative digital projects in the undergraduate humanities classroom: Case studies with TimelineJS
    Spencer D. C. Keralis, Courtney E. Jacobs, Matthew Weirick Johnson. Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.
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Book Chapters

  • Job control and librarian engagement: Considerations of workplace agency for crafting meaningful work experiences
    2026. Matthew Weirick Johnson.
    In J. Martin (Ed.) Creating Healthy Library Workplaces: Five Factors That Improve Employee Engagement and Satisfaction.
  • Library instruction training and the MLIS: A review of the literature
    2024. Matthew Weirick Johnson.
    In M. W. Johnson (Ed.) Training Library Instructors, Vol 1: A Guide to Training Graduate Students.
  • Everyday evidence to assess teaching and learning: A programmatic assessment of library instruction
    2023. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Michelle Brasseur, Monica Hagan, Diane Mizrachi, Jimmy Zavala.
    In C. W. Wiley, A. B. Click & M. Houlihan (Eds.) Everyday Evidence-Based Practice in Academic Libraries: Case Studies and Reflections.
  • Transforming our identities as learners and instructors: A library instruction training program
    2023. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Michelle Brasseur, Alexandra Solodkaya, Hannah Sutherland.
    In A. N. Hess (Ed.) Instructional Identities and Information Literacy (Vol 2): Transforming Our Programs, Institutions, and Profession.
  • Promoting critical reading through learner-centered design: WI+RE’s approach to open online learning
    2023. Salma Abumeeiz, Christopher Lopez, Matthew Weirick Johnson, Kian Ravaei, Renee Romero, Hannah Sutherland, Doug Worsham.
    In H. G. Rempel & R. Hamelers (Eds.) Teaching Critical Reading Skills: Strategies for Academic Librarians, Volume 2.
  • Writing and Research Training Program: A UCLA campus partnership to support BIPOC, LGBTQIA, and disabled student researchers
    2023. Akua Agyen, Jason Araújo, Matthew Weirick Johnson, Simon Lee, Ashley Newby, Renee Romero, Laurel Westrup.
    In M. K. Hensley, H. Fargo & S. Davis-Kahl (Eds.) Undergraduate Research and the Academic Librarian: Case Studies and Best Practices, Volume 2.
  • What’s in a workload? Affect, burnout, and complicating capacity in academic librarians
    2022. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Sylvia Page.
    In C. Holm, A. Guimaraes & N. Marcano (Eds.) Academic Librarian Burnout: Causes and Responses.
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Other Publications

  • Fixing work, not workers: Burnout as an organizational problem
    2026. Matthew Weirick Johnson. College & Research Libraries News.
  • Celebrating 25 years of information literacy: A presentation series
    2025. Jane Hammons, Spencer Brayton, Audrey Gunn, Matthew Weirick Johnson, Melissa Mallon, Mira Scarnecchia. College & Research Libraries News.
  • Keeping up with...burnout
    2024. Matthew Weirick Johnson. ACRL Keeping Up With... Series.
  • Teaching in the digital library: A partnership between teaching librarians and digital library staff
    2021. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Salma Abumeeiz, Elizabeth McAulay. College & Research Libraris News.
  • Book Review: Library Trends issue: Labor in academic libraries
    2020. Matthew Weirick Johnson. The Librarian Parlor.
  • Book Review: Masked by trust: Bias in library discovery
    2019. Matthew Weirick Johnson. The Librarian Parlor.
  • Book Review: Critical approaches to credit-bearing information literacy courses
    2019. Matthew Weirick Johnson. The Librarian Parlor.
  • Personal health data, surveillance, & biopolitics: Toward a personal health data information literacy
    2018. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Progressive Librarian.
  • ‘All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil’: Connections between person and place in Wuthering Heights
    2016. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Philologia.
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Talks & Presentations

International & National

  • Science fiction as methodology: Extrapolation, speculation, and fabulation in qualitative inquiry
    2026. Matthew Weirick Johnson. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, CA. Conference Presentation.
  • Moving past the research paper: Centering metaliteracy in effective research assignment design
    2026. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Jennifer Slagus. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, CA. Conference Presentation.
  • Ethics in the algorithm: Artificial intelligence and qualitative research
    2026. Lorien S. Jordan, Jennifer R. Wolgemuth, Matthew Weirick Johnson, Camryn T. Collins. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, CA. Conference Presentation.
  • Qualitative research and generative AI on the intergalactic bummer train
    2026. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Lorien S. Jordan. European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Athens, Greece. Conference Presentation.
  • The violence that makes our research possible: AI, extraction, and qualitative ethics
    2026. Lorien S. Jordan, Matthew Weirick Johnson, Jennifer R. Wolgemuth. European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Athens, Greece. Conference Presentation.
  • Methodological performativity: Doing and undoing methodology
    2025. Matthew Weirick Johnson. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting. Denver, CO. Conference Presentation.
  • Build your personal website with Quarto
    2025. Matthew Weirick Johnson. National Council on Measurement in Education. Denver, CO. Training Session.
  • Publish it with ACRL
    2025. Anne Doherty, David Free, Erin Nevius, Bill Mickey, Matthew Weirick Johnson, Heidi Burkhardt. Association of College & Research Libraries Conference. Minneapolis, MN. Panel Presentation.
  • (Un)doing methodology/(un)becoming methodologist: Performativity and methodological norms
    2025. Matthew Weirick Johnson. The Qualitative Report Conference. Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Conference Presentation.
  • Quantitative Criticalism in LIS
    2024. Matthew Weirick Johnson. IRDL Online Research Conference. Online. Conference Presentation.
  • Librarian perceptions of job control: Considerations for leaders and managers
    2024. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Core Forum. Minneapolis, MN. Poster Presentation.
  • Meaningful work & librarian agency: Exploring job control among academic instruction librarians
    2024. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Conference on Academic Library Management. Online. Conference Presentation.
  • Developing librarian-research confidence with Research Fridays
    2023. Matthew Weirick Johnson. LOEX Fall Focus. Online. Lightning Talk.
  • Burnout in libraries: A research & advocacy panel
    2023. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Jessica Jones, Lynn Hoffman (moderator). Core Forum. New Orleans, LA. Panel Presentation.
  • Accessible access, universal design, and the limits of inclusion in open educational resource development: An interactive workshop
    2022. Salma Abumeeiz, Matthew Weirick Johnson. Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium. Online. Conference Presentation.
  • Writing and research are inseparable: Helping instructors integrate research and writing instruction in writing across the curriculum course planning
    2021. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Sylvia Page, Laurel Westrup. LOEX. Online. Conference Presentation.
  • Conflicting interests and begrudging partnerships: Turning critical pedagogy on human resources
    2020. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Critical Librarianship & Pedagogy Symposium. Online. Conference Presentation.
  • Desiring SUVs: Masculinities, masculine overcompensation, and gender segregation in academic libraries
    2019. Matthew Weirick Johnson. IDEAL. Columbus, OH. Conference Presentation.
  • Writing beyond the academy: Writing & digital literacy skills courses in local public libraries
    2018. Matthew Weirick Johnson. International Writing Centers Association Conference. Atlanta, GA. Conference Presentation.
  • Learning from the library: Information worlds & information poverty
    2017. Matthew Weirick Johnson. International Writing Centers Association Conference. Chicago, IL. Conference Presentation.
  • Committed to write: Writing centers, libraries, & prisons in collaboration
    2016. Matthew Weirick Johnson. International Writing Centers Association Conference. Denver, CO. Conference Presentation.
  • The Writing Partners Program: A case study of ELL students and beginning coaches
    2015. Jennifer Lawrence, Matthew Weirick Johnson. International Writing Centers Association Conference. Panel: Who Do We Think We Are? Institutional, Student, and Disciplinary Perceptions of the Writing Center. Pittsburgh, PA. Panel Presentation.
  • Don Juan in love (and lust)
    2015. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Messolonghi Byron Society’s 10th Annual International Student Byron Conference. Messolonghi, GR. Conference Presentation.
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Regional, Local & Institutional

  • Ad-libbing methodology: Templates, structure, and improvisation in writing about qualitative research
    2026. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Interdisciplinary Symposium on Qualitative Methodologies. Tampa, FL. Conference Presentation.
  • PrEP and queer potentiality: Resisting normative logics of biomedical technologies in sexual health
    2026. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Present Tense / Future Possibilities Conference (USF Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Interdisciplinary Conference). Tampa, FL. Conference Presentation.
  • Autonomy, competence, relatedness: A framework of practical strategies for meaningful student work
    2025. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Jennifer Slagus, Daniel Neil. Association of College & Research Libraries Delaware Valley Chapter Fall Event. Online. Conference Presentation.
  • Recovery from work: Recovery activities, experiences, and environments for academic library well-being
    2025. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Florida Association of College & Research Libraries Virtual Conference. Online. Conference Presentation.
  • 'Where we're going, we don't need roads': Methodology as infrastructure, (in)visibility, and the potential of disorientation
    2025. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Interdisciplinary Symposium on Qualitative Methodologies. Tampa, FL. Conference Presentation.
  • Academic teaching librarian reflections on self-report burnout and job control scores
    2024. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Florida Educational Research Association Annual Conference. Orlando, FL. Poster Presentation.
  • Information literacy professional development for disciplinary faculty through a summer institute
    2024. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Jessica Szempruch, Carl DiNardo, Emily Mann. Florida Association of College & Research Libraries Virtual Conference. Online. Conference Presentation.
  • The limits of open access in open educational resources: Incorporating accessibility into the WI+RE Way at UCLA Library
    2022. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Salma Abumeeiz. California Conference on Library Instruction. Online. Conference Presentation.
  • The limits of inclusion in open access: Accessible access, universal design, and open educational resources
    2022. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Salma Abumeeiz. UCLA Library Research Forum. Online. Conference Presentation.
  • UCLA Library’s Anti-Racist Pedagogy Workshop Series
    2021. Matthew Weirick Johnson. LAUC Assembly DEI Lightning Talks. Online. Lightning Talk.
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Invited Talks

  • Seeing ourselves as workers: Exploring burnout & workers solidarity in academic libraries
    2025. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Delaware Library Association College & Researc Libraries Division Winter Program. Online. Invited Talk.
  • Teaching information literacy: Considering current and future approaches and models
    2024. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Heidi Julien, Jane Hammons, Bill Badke, Karen Kaufmann (moderator). Continuing the Conversation Webinar Series hosted by Ohio State University Libraries. Online. Invited Panel Presentation.
  • Best of Core Forum: Burnout in libraries: A research & advocacy panel
    2024. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Jessica Jones, Lynn Hoffman (moderator). Best of Core Forum Webinar Series. Online. Invited Panel Presentation.
  • Burnout and affective labor
    2023. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Sylvia Page. Recipe for Resilience: Strategies for Combating Burnout in the Workplace sponsored by the Medical Library Association (MLA). Online. Invited Panel Presentation.
  • Missing in the open: Accessibility and OER and open access
    2023. Matthew Weirick Johnson, Salma Abumeeiz, Sylvia Page. UCLA Library Open Access Week 2023. Online. Invited Panel Presentation.
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Webinars

  • Build your personal website with Quarto: Sharing your research
    2025. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Core Webinars. Online. Webinar.
  • Build your personal website with Quarto: Highlighting your work and creating a blog
    2025. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Core Webinars. Online. Webinar.
  • Build your personal website with Quarto: Getting started
    2025. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Core Webinars. Online. Webinar.
  • Build your personal website with Quarto: An introduction to GitHub Pages, Markdown, and R Studio
    2025. Matthew Weirick Johnson. Core Webinars. Online. Webinar.
  • Training library instructors: MLIS students
    2024. Dominique Turnbow, Kelly Delevan, B. Austin Waters, Breeann Austin, Matthew Weirick Johnson (moderator). Association of College & Research Libraries. Online. Webinar.
  • Training library instructors: Institutional approaches
    2024. Kirstie Preest, Claire Sewell, Karen Munro, Matt Huculak, Michael Lines, Matthew Weirick Johnson (moderator). Association of College & Research Libraries. Online. Webinar.
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Editorial & Peer Review Service

Editorial Service

  • College & Research Libraries, Social Media Editor 2023 – 2026
  • ACRL Choice, Editorial Board Member 2023 – 2025
  • Public Services Quarterly, Editorial Board Member 2023 – Present

Peer Reviews

  • The Journal of Academic Librarianship 18 reviews (2023 – 2026)
  • Public Services Quarterly 9 reviews (2023 – 2026)
  • College & Research Libraries 4 reviews (2023 – 2026)
  • Journal of New Librarianship 3 reviews (2021 – 2023)
  • New Media & Society 3 reviews (2021)
  • Journal of Information Literacy 1 review (2024)
  • Journal of the Medical Library Association 1 review (2022)
  • Library Journal 1 review (2024)
  • Qualitative Inquiry 1 review (2025)

Professional Service

American Library Association (ALA)

  • Conference Committee, ACRL Representative 2022 – 2023

Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)

  • Conference Contributed Papers Committee, Member 2024 – 2025
  • Publications Coordinating Committee, Member 2023 – 2025
  • Choice Editorial Board, Member 2023 – 2025
  • College & Research Libraries Editorial Board, Member 2023 – 2026
  • Nominations and Policies Audit Task Force, Chair 2022 – 2023
  • Professional Development Committee, Chair 2022 – 2023
  • Professional Development Committee, Member 2019 – 2022
ACRL Instruction Section (IS)
  • Management and Leadership Committee, Member 2026 – 2028
  • Nominating Committee, Chair 2025 – 2026
  • Executive Committee, Archivist 2024 – 2025
  • Executive Committee, Secretary 2023 – 2024
  • Peer-reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO) Committee, Member 2023 – 2025
  • Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, Member 2018 – 2020
ACRL University Libraries Section (ULS)
  • Professional Development Committee, Co-Chair 2025 – 2027
  • Professional Development Committee, Member 2023 – 2025
ACRL Women and Gender Studies Section (WGSS)
  • Core Books Project (HIV & AIDS, British Literature), Member 2021 – Present
  • Awards Committee, Member 2021 – 2023
Rainbow Round Table (RRT)
  • Stonewall Book Awards - Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Committee, Member 2022 – 2024
  • News & Reviews Committee, Member 2019 – 2021
  • Resources Committee, Member 2017 – 2019

Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT)

  • Top 20 Committee, Member 2023 – 2027
  • Newsletter Committee, Member 2017 – 2019

American Educational Research Association (AERA)

Qualitative Research Special Interest Group (QRSIG)

  • Graduate Student Travel Award Committee, Member 2026 – 2027

Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL)

  • Mentor 2023 – 2024