I worked at the University of British Columbia Library 1980-2003 as a cataloguer and reference librarian in the humanities and social sciences. The Library provides me this digital repository in support of ongoing research and writing.
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jjones@interchange.ubc.ca
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Koerner Library, 1958 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z2
Canadian Literature
Vietnam War Resisters in Canada
Books
[Translation of Hubert Aquin novella, with appended essay]
Les sables mouvants = Shifting sands
Vancouver : Ronsdale Press, 2009. 109 p.
[Edited with Lori Olafson]
War Resisters in Retrospect : Papers from the 2007 Our Way Home
Peace Event and Reunion
Vancouver ; Las Vegas : Joseph Jones ; Lori Olafson, 2009. 112 p.
Happenstance and Misquotation : Canadian Immigration Policy
1966-1974, the Arrival of U.S. Vietnam War Resisters, and the Views
of Pierre Trudeau
Vancouver : Quarter Sheaf, 2008. 80 p.
Reference Sources for Canadian Literary Studies
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2005. xiv, 464 p.
Contending Statistics : The Numbers for U.S. Vietnam War Resisters
in Canada
Vancouver : Quarter Sheaf, 2005. 74 p.
Poem
“white phosphorus and depleted uranium,”
p. 126-127 in
Crossing Lines : Poets Who Came to Canada in the Vietnam War Era
(Allan Briesmaster and Steven Michael Berzensky, eds.)
Hamilton, ON : Seraphim Editions, c2008. 256 p.
Essays
“A Working Academic Librarian’s Perspective on Information
Technology Literacy,”
LIBRES 13:2 (Sept. 2003)
“The House of Anansi’s Singular Bestseller,” Canadian Notes & Queries 61 (2002) 19-22
“The True Meaning of Vancouver,” Vancouver Sun (31 Dec. 1994) D4
[Written with Jack Colhoun] “Future stress: the psychology of exile,” Amex Canada 4:6 / 38 (Jan.-Mar. 1974) 42-44
Conference Presentations
Legal Tremors in the Lead-Up to
Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympic Games
Recover – Renew – Reimagine
28th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
University of Oregon School of Law, 25-28 February 2010
“Women in the Vietnam-era Exile Movement as Reflected in the
Pages of Amex-Canada Magazine,”
Historical Perspectives on Engendering War, Peace and Justice
Peace History Society, Georgian Court University, 19-20 October 2007
“The Numbers Have Stories: Perspectives on the Statistics for
Vietnam War Resisters in Canada,”
A New Generation of Research on Vietnam War Resisters in Canada
– Parts I and II (Workshop 8)
Our Way Home Peace Event & Reunion, Brilliant Cultural Center,
Castlegar, B.C., 4-8 July 2007
“Action and Assessment in the First Generation of Writing
about U.S. Vietnam War Resisters in Canada,”
Peace Activism and Scholarship: Historical Perspectives of Social,
Economic, and Political Change
Peace History Society, Winthrop University, 3-5 November 2005
Martianus Capella, the Author within the Text
– Selected Handouts
Authorship: Theory and Practice
34th Medieval Workshop, University of British Columbia, 12-13 November 2004
Intermediation and the Digital Library ALLC/ACH 1998
Reviews
“Chaotic Fancies,” Canadian Literature 193 (summer 2007) 163-164
Alberto Manguel. The Library at Night. Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, 2006
Canadian Book Review Annual 2006
Devin Krukoff. Compensation. Saskatoon : Thistledown Press, 2006 (3067 : 187-188)
Keith Maillard. Looking Good. Difficulty at the Beginning, Book 4. [Edmonton] : Brindle & Glass, c2006 (3077 : 191-192)
Peter Showler. Refugee Sandwich : Stories of Exile and Asylum. Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, c2006 (4066 : 310)
Canadian Book Review Annual 2005
Keith Maillard. Running. Difficulty at the Beginning, Book 1. [Edmonton] : Brindle & Glass, c2005 (3071 : 181)
Stuart Ross. Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. Vancouver : Anvil Press, 2005 (2099 : 74-75)
Janice Tait. The Devil’s Snare : a Memoir of Saigon. Toronto : McGilligan Books, 2005 (2109 : 79-80)
John Vaillant. The Golden Spruce : a True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed. Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2005 (5031 : 412-413)
Rex Wyler. Greenpeace : How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World. Vancouver : Raincoast Books, 2004 (5023 : 408-409)
Canadian Book Review Annual 2004
Robert Hunter. The Greenpeace to Amchitka : an Environmental Odyssey. Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004 (5018 : 440)
Han Zao Li. The Water Lily Pond : a Village Girl’s Journey in Maoist China. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2004 (Life Writing Series) (3065 : 185)
Mary Soderstrom. After Surfing Ocean Beach : a Novel. Toronto : Simon & Pierre, c2004 (3096 : 197)
Willie Thomas. Cristoforo : Strange Tales of a Singular Traveller. St. John’s, Nfld. : Breakwater Books, c2004 (3102 : 200)
Thomas Wharton. The Logogryph : a Bibliography of Imaginary Books. Kentville, N.S. : Gaspereau Press , 2004 (3151 : 219-220)
“Of Wars and the Border,” Canadian Literature 179 (winter 2003) 142-144
John Hagan. Northern Passage : American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2001
Frank Kusch. All American Boys : Draft Dodgers in Canada from the Vietnam War. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001
Francis M. Carroll. A Good and Wise Measure : The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2001
“Two Wars, Two Histories,” Canadian Literature 179 (winter 2003) 167-169
Eric L. Muller. Free to Die for Their Country : The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001
Reporting Vietnam : American Journalism 1959-1975. New York : Library of America, c2000
Early Modern Literary Studies 9:1 (May 2003) 13.1-9
Ruth Samson Luborsky and Elizabeth Morley Ingram. A Guide to English Illustrated Books 1536-1603. Tempe, AZ : Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1998
Canadian Book Review Annual 2003
Michel Basilières. Black Bird. Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2003 (3008 : 152-153)
Brian Burch. Resources for Radicals. 5th ed. Toronto : Toronto Action for Social Change, 2003 (1003 : 10-11)
Brian Busby. Character Parts. Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2003 (3258 : 253-254)
Ernie B. Ingles and N. Merrill Distad, eds. Peel’s Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953. 3rd. ed. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2003 (1002 : 10)
Gordon Sheppard. HA! : a Self-Murder Mystery. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003 (2085 : 71-72)
Canadian Book Review Annual 2002
Donna Bennett, Russell Brown, eds. A New Anthology of Canadian Literature in English. Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press Canada, 2002 (3265 : 238)
Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary. Better to Have Loved : the Life of Judith Merril. Toronto : Between the Lines, 2002 (2071 : 55)
W.H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press Canada, 2002 (1005 : 11)
Ray Robertson. Moody Food. Toronto : Doubleday Canada, c2002 (3098 : 180)
Esta Spalding and Linda Spalding. Mere. Toronto : HarperFlamingo Canada, c2001 (3114 : 186)
“A Work of Devotion,” Canadian Literature 169 (summer 2001) 182-184
Carl Spadoni. A Bibliography of Stephen Leacock. Toronto : ECW Press, c1998
Canadian Book Review Annual 2001
Richard Teleky. Pack Up the Moon. Toronto : T. Allen, c2001 (3109 : 184-185)
Jack Todd. The Taste of Metal : A Deserter’s Story. Toronto : HarperFlamingo Canada, c2001 (2117 : 77)
William Toye, ed. The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2001 (3304 : 258-259)
James J. O’Donnell. Avatars of the Word : From Papyrus to Cyberspace. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998
Digital Concrete Poetry Experiment
Links to guides and resources and documents produced as a working librarian.
Updated March 2011