MARY DU MONT

Music Librarian, Brown Fine Arts Library 713-348-2593

Education
Bachelor of Music in vocal performance, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1986. Master of Library Science, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 1990.
Master of Arts in Musicology, Kent State University, Kent, OH, in progress.

Professional Experience
Music Librarian, Brown Fine Arts Library; Rice University, Houston
Assistant Professor, Libraries and Media Services; Head, Music Library, Kent State University Libraries, Kent, Ohio, January, 1994 - 2001. Instructor, Libraries and Media Services, Reference Department, Kent State University Libraries, Kent, Ohio, 1990 - January, 1994.

Publications
Du Mont, Mary. The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. ISBN 0313304130.

"Music Reviews and Listings." In Magazines for Libraries, 7th, 8th and 9th eds. Edited by William A. Katz and Linda Sternberg Katz. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1992-1997.

"The Evolution and Reaffirmation of a Library Orientation Program in an Academic Research Library." RSR: Reference Services Review 23, 1 (Spring 1995): 85-92, with Barbara F. Schloman.

"Images of Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1970, 1980, and 1990: A Comparative Content Analysis." Voice of Youth Advocates 16 (April 1993): 11-15, 21.

"The Internet and Service Implications for Academic Libraries." Library Review 42, 1 (1993): 15-19, with Carolyn Radcliff and Jeffrey N. Gatten.

Awards/Grants
Kent State University Libraries' annual Research Collections Award, 2000, for the purchase of the RIPM nineteenth-century music periodicals series for the libraries to support faculty and graduate research.

Music Library Association, 1999 Walter Gerboth Award, an award made annually to music librarians in the first five years of their careers to assist research in progress, $1,000 to support a research project sponsored by the Music Library Association involving the administration of the Wisconsin-Ohio Reference Evaluation Program Survey in music libraries.

Academic Library Association of Ohio, 1998 Research Award, $500 to help fund a book-length annotated research bibliography to be published by Greenwood Press, on the subject of the Mozart-Da Ponte operas (The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte.

University Research Council Support, Division of Research and Graduate Studies, Kent State University, $2,230 to support a research project sponsored by the Music Library Association involving the administration of the Wisconsin-Ohio Reference Evaluation Program Survey in music libraries

Interests
Mozart operas, late nineteenth-century German lieder, improving reference service in music libraries.