MANAGING THE SCHOOL LIBRARY RESOURCE CENTER: A SELECTION OF CASE STUDIES James Henri, R. Edward Monkhouse, and Claire Louise Williams Metuchen (N.J.), Scarecrow Press, 1991. 146pp, cloth, $22.50 ISBN 0-8108-2407-8 Professional Reviewed by Philip Barber Volume 20 Number 1 1992 January However, it was time that the philoso­phy and terminology of today's school librarianship (i.e., resource-based learning and co-operative planning and teaching) were introduced into the case study method, together with a Canadian voice supplementing U.S., British and Australian experience. Here the voice is that of Ted Monkhouse of the Wellington County Board of Education in Guelph, Ontario, whose experience as a teacher of teacher-librarians is vast. This text can be used to demonstrate to our teacher-librarians that their problems are not unique, and there are much more than school board or prov­ince-wide implications for education. There are some forty-five fictional open-ended cases here, grouped by themes such as collection development, time­tabling, curriculum collaboration and automation, each with its suggested framework for discussion, but no solution. They can be used in a library school or faculty of education, as well as in school district in-service workshops, provided that they are presented by experienced tutors and/or teacher-librarians who can convincingly analyse and solve the variety of problems described here. The excellent bibliogra­phies provide the information required to solve the cases, but the tutor's experi­ence is probably the most important component of the exercise. Philip Barber, Toronto Board of Education, Toronto, Ont.