Biography: DIR-B
Director Bruce Johnson, PhD (cand.), MA, MSLS (email)
Bruce Johnson, PhD (cand.), MA, MSLS, serves the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary as the Director for Recreational Boating Safety Affairs. He is a Boat Crew Coxswain, an Operations Mentor, a qualified Instructor, a Vessel Examiner, a Commercial Fishing Vessel Examiner, an Uninspected Passenger Vessel Examiner, and an Aids to Navigation Verifier. He has served as a Flotilla Commander and Vice Division Captain, as well as serving in staff positions at the Flotilla, Division, and District levels.
Mr. Johnson is a 25 year veteran of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. He has held a variety of management and team leadership positions, and is the principal developer of Cataloger’s Desktop,an online documentation tool used worldwide by professional catalogers and library automation specialists.
Mr. Johnson is a recognized leader in his profession, having taught at the School of Library and Information Science of Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He is also a Past President of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association. Mr. Johnson has a number of published journal articles to his credit, and is much in demand as a speaker on information organization and retrieval.
Mr. Johnson is married to Holly, a library manager and fellow Coast Guard Auxiliarist. They live in Columbia Maryland and have two grown children. When not working on Auxiliary projects, they are both active in the Sea Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America, and cruise the central Chesapeake Bay on their Catalina 30 sailboat, Glamorgan.