Two literary journals have published the work of the Interlibrary Loan/Reference Librarian at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Melinda F. Matthews reviewed "New Orleans Classic Appetizers" by Kit Wohl, which is published in Louisiana Libraries, vol. 72 no. 3, Winter 2010, page 48.

She also reviewed "Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide" by Cass R. Sunstein for the Quarterly Journal of Ideology, vol. 32, March 2010 issue.

Matthews earned her master's degree in Library and Information Science from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in May 1990.

She earned a bachelor's degree in English in December 1988 from McNeese State University in Lake Charles.

She has worked at the ULM Library since July 1990, where she started as Humanities Reference Librarian. She became Interlibrary Loan/Reference Librarian in January 1992.