Contributors

Abstract

Meredith Eliassen has an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, Boston. Currently she is the reference specialist at the Leonard Library at San Francisco State University. She is interested in how legislation has influenced the lives of ordinary individuals and families. Most of her work reflects history and life in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her article, 'A Colored Mosaic,' California State Library Foundation Bulletin, 84 (2006), 11-16, (which is available on-line at >www.cslfdn.org/pdf/bulletin-84.pdf) presents the story of African Americans in San Francisco during the California Gold Rush.