Reference Sources for Canadian Literary Studies.(Book Review)

Reference Sources for Canadian Literary Studies. By Joseph Jones. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Pr., 2005. 464p. acid free $128 (ISBN 0-802-08740-x).

For mapping the bibliographic terrain, this is an impressive guide to reference sources of Canadian literature and related topics. Jones, librarian emeritus (University of British Columbia) and a veteran reference librarian and cataloger, is well-suited for researching and organizing the literary landscape of Canada. The work is deliberately comprehensive, offering 1,005 annotated entries: "The listing of core items possessing all of the key features (reference, Canadian, literary, and English) aims at being exhaustive, with no …