Serving Youth: Multicultural Programming: Sharing Similarities and Celebrating Differences Saturday, March 27    8:30 AM - 9:45 AM     Room:  Oregon Convention Center – B113-116 Amy  Miller  Youth Collection Development Librarian, Central Arkansas Library System  Lucia Gonzalez MLS Author/Consultant, In Other Words: Multicultural Children's Books and Consulting  Jamie Naidoo MLIS, Ph.D. Assistant & Foster-EBSCO Endowed Professor, University of Alabama  How many cultures are represented each week at your story programs? Do the books shared during your programs reflect these cultures accurately? This program is designed to offer participants tools to evaluate books for cultural authenticity and explain the benefits of multicultural book inclusion in programs and collections. Benefits and Learning Objectives At the end of this session participants will have book and web resources which will guide them in choosing multicultural literature. At the end of this program participants will be able to evaluate the cultural authenticity of books. At the end of this program attendees will have examples of multicultural programs they can adapt for use in their communities. Intended Audience Public librarians who work with children or choose books for the youth collections.