The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has selected Bergis Jules as its Spectrum Scholar Intern for 2009. Jules, a 2008 Spectrum Scholar, is pursuing dual master's degrees with the School of Library and Information Science and the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University at Bloomington.

As an intern with RUSA, Jules will work for a year and a half with RUSA's vice-president/president-elect, Neal Wyatt. He will receive $3,000 for travel expenses to attend the American Library Association's (ALA) Midwinter and Annual Conferences.

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