The San Mateo City Council is in favor of permanently eliminating library fines at public libraries for late materials, with the San Mateo Public Library system focusing on other ways ...

The San Mateo Main Library, the city’s largest building and perhaps its greenest, soon will be powered in part by the sun’s rays. San Mateo public works officials said Monday they are finally ...

San Mateo Public Library’s genealogy collection features more than 2,200 books, journals, maps and atlases covering the United States and San Mateo County and includes basic general information ...

There will be no librarians "shushing," and you can eat your snacks wherever you like. Sleek, flat-screen computer monitors dot the open, airy spaces between stacks of books, and dozens of windows ...

The San Mateo County Library is closing all locations starting Monday and lasting through March 31 due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. All four branches of the Daly City Public Library are also ...

Bracing perhaps for a future run on Harry Potter or Hobbit books, San Mateo is getting ready to begin construction on a new library that will triple the size of the main branch that has been ...

San Mateo has built a 21st century library that Andrew Carnegie would envy. Over 10 years coming, San Mateo's $65 million building opens Aug. 27. Hopes are that the new structure will help build ...

Berkeley Public Library and San Diego Public Library eliminated overdue fines for all patrons in 2018, and Contra Costa County Library, San Mateo County Library and Marin County Library followed suit ...

SAN MATEO — An unnamed Bay Area biotechnology company has agreed to put up $2 million to fund a biotechnology learning center in the new main branch of the city’s library. The center will be ...