Peninsula Library System | |
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Established | 1971 |
Location | San Mateo County, California |
Branches | 35 [1] |
Access and use | |
Population served | 718,451 |
Other information | |
Director | Carol Frost [2] |
Website | www |
The Peninsula Library System (PLS) is a consortium of public and community college libraries [3] in San Mateo County, California, United States, which serves the part of the San Francisco Bay Area known as "The Peninsula". The system has dozens of branches in local communities and at various area community colleges, a bookmobile, and automated book kiosks called Library-a-Go-Go. [4]
The Peninsula Library System's mission states that it "strengthens local libraries through cooperation, enabling them to provide better service to their diverse communities."
Peninsula Library System is a consortium of libraries, whose members are the branches of the San Mateo County Libraries, individual city libraries and their branches, and area community college libraries.
There are two branches in Burlingame: One main library, and one at Easton. The PLS includes the libraries at Cañada College, College of San Mateo, and Skyline College. There are four branches in Daly City: The John D. Daly branch on Hillside, the Bayshore branch, the Serramonte branch, and the Westlake branch. Menlo Park has both a main branch and a branch at Belle Haven. The Downtown Library, Schaberg Branch Library, and Redwood Shores Branch Library comprise the three library locations in the community of Redwood City. San Mateo has a main downtown location plus two minor branches, while South San Francisco has two a self-titled branches, both a main branch and one on Grand Avenue. Pacifica has two branches at Sanchez and Sharp Park. The remaining cities—San Bruno, Atherton, Belmont, Brisbane, East Palo Alto, Foster City, Half Moon Bay, Millbrae, San Carlos, Woodside, and Portola Valley—have one location each.
Member system | Branch | Street Address | City | ZIP | Telephone | Image |
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Burlingame Public Library [5] | Burlingame Main | 480 Primrose Road | Burlingame | 94010 | (650)558‑7400 | |
Easton | 1800 Easton Drive | Burlingame | 94010 | (650)340‑6180 | ||
Community College Libraries | Cañada College [6] | 4200 Farm Hill Boulevard | Redwood City | 94061 | (650)306‑3267 | |
College of San Mateo [7] | 1700 West Hillsdale Boulevard | San Mateo | 94402 | (650)574‑6100 | ||
Skyline College [8] | 3300 College Drive | San Bruno | 94066 | (650)738‑4311 | ||
Daly City Public Library [9] | Bayshore | 460 Martin Street | Daly City | 94014 | (650)991‑8074 | |
John Daly | 134 Hillside Boulevard | Daly City | 94014 | (650)991‑8073 | ||
Serramonte Main | 40 Wembley Drive | Daly City | 94015 | (650)991‑8023 | ||
Westlake | 275 Southgate Avenue | Daly City | 94015 | (650)991‑8071 | ||
Menlo Park Library [10] | Menlo Park | 800 Alma Street | Menlo Park | 94025 | (650)330‑2500 | |
Belle Haven | 413 Ivy Drive | Menlo Park | 94025 | (650)330‑2540 | ||
Redwood City Public Library [11] | Downtown | 1044 Middlefield Road | Redwood City | 94063 | (650)780‑7018 | |
Redwood Shores | 399 Marine Parkway | Redwood City | 94065 | (650)780‑5740 | ||
Schaberg | 2140 Euclid Avenue | Redwood City | 94061 | (650)780‑7010 | ||
San Bruno Public Library [12] | San Bruno | 701 Angus Avenue West | San Bruno | 94066 | (650)616‑7078 | |
San Mateo City Library [13] | Hillsdale | 205 West Hillsdale Boulevard | San Mateo | 94403 | (650)522‑7880 | |
San Mateo Main | 55 West 3rd Avenue | San Mateo | 94402 | (650)522‑7800 | ||
Marina | 1530 Susan Court | San Mateo | 94403 | (650)522‑7890 | ||
San Mateo County Libraries [14] | Atherton | 2 Dinkelspiel Station Lane | Atherton | 94027 | (650)328‑2422 | |
Belmont | 1110 Alameda de las Pulgas | Belmont | 94002 | (650)591‑8286 | ||
Bookmobile | 620 Correas Street | Half Moon Bay | 94019 | (650)726‑2316 | ||
Brisbane | 250 Visitacion Avenue | Brisbane | 94005 | (415)467‑2060 | ||
East Palo Alto | 2415 University Avenue | East Palo Alto | 94303 | (650)321‑7712 | ||
Foster City | 1000 East Hillsdale Boulevard | Foster City | 94404 | (650)574‑4842 | ||
Half Moon Bay | 620 Correas Street | Half Moon Bay | 94019 | (650)726‑2316 | ||
Millbrae | 1 Library Avenue | Millbrae | 94030 | (650)697‑7607 | ||
North Fair Oaks | 2510 Middlefield Road | Redwood City | 94063 | 650-670-8778 | ||
Pacifica – Sanchez | 1111 Terra Nova Boulevard | Pacifica | 94044 | (650)359-3397 | ||
Pacifica – Sharp Park | 104 Hilton Way | Pacifica | 94044 | (650)355‑5196 | ||
Portola Valley | 765 Portola Road | Portola Valley | 94028 | (650)851‑0560 | ||
San Carlos | 610 Elm Street | San Carlos | 94070 | (650)591‑0341 | ||
Woodside | 3140 Woodside Road | Woodside | 94062 | (650)851‑0147 | ||
South San Francisco Public Library [15] | Grand Avenue | 306 Walnut Avenue | South San Francisco | 94080 | (650)877‑8530 | |
South San Francisco Main | 840 West Orange Avenue | South San Francisco | 94080 | (650)829‑3860 |
The San Francisco Peninsula is a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area that separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. On its northern tip is the City and County of San Francisco. Its southern base is Mountain View, south of Palo Alto and north of Sunnyvale and Los Altos. Most of the Peninsula is occupied by San Mateo County, between San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, and including the cities and towns of Atherton, Belmont, Brisbane, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, East Palo Alto, El Granada, Foster City, Hillsborough, Half Moon Bay, La Honda, Loma Mar, Los Altos, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Pacifica, Palo Alto, Pescadero, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Mateo, South San Francisco, and Woodside.
San Mateo County, officially the County of San Mateo, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 764,442. Redwood City is the county seat, and the third most populated city following Daly City and San Mateo. San Mateo County is included in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA MSA, Silicon Valley, and is part of the San Francisco Bay Area, the nine counties bordering San Francisco Bay. It covers most of the San Francisco Peninsula. San Francisco International Airport is located in the northeastern area of the county and is approximately 7 miles south of the city and county limits of San Francisco, even though the airport itself is assigned a San Francisco postal address. The county's built-up areas are mostly suburban, and are home to several corporate campuses.
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San Bruno is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, incorporated in 1914. The population was 43,908 at the 2020 United States Census. The city is between South San Francisco and Millbrae, adjacent to San Francisco International Airport and Golden Gate National Cemetery; it is approximately 12 miles (19 km) south of Downtown San Francisco.
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Area code 650 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It was split from area code 415 on August 2, 1997, and includes most of San Mateo County, part of San Francisco, and the northwestern portion of Santa Clara County including Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Los Altos.
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San Bruno Mountain is a horst fault-block mountain located in northern San Mateo County, California; with northern slopes rising in southern San Francisco. It is surrounded by San Francisco Bay and the cities of Brisbane, Colma, Daly City, and South San Francisco.
The San Mateo County Community College District is a community college system in California with three institutions: College of San Mateo in San Mateo, Cañada College in Redwood City, and Skyline College in San Bruno. The district serves more than 25,000 students each day with both day and evening classes.
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San Andreas Lake is a reservoir adjacent to the San Francisco Peninsula cities of Millbrae and San Bruno in San Mateo County, California. It is situated directly on the San Andreas Fault, which is named after the valley it is in.
The San Mateo Union High School District is a high school district headquartered in San Mateo, California. In addition to San Mateo, the district serves the cities of San Bruno, Millbrae, Burlingame, Hillsborough, and Foster City.
Skyline College is a public community college in San Bruno, California. It is one of three comprehensive community colleges in the San Mateo County Community College District. It was opened in 1969.
One of the six Boy Scouts of America councils that serves the San Francisco Bay area, the Pacific Skyline Council was founded in 1940 as the Stanford Area Council (#031). In 1994, the Stanford Area Council merged with the San Mateo County Council (#020) to form the current council which serves youth in San Mateo County and northern Santa Clara county.
Junipero Serra Boulevard is a major boulevard in and south of San Francisco named after Franciscan friar Junipero Serra. Within the city, it forms part of the route of State Route 1, the shortest connection between Interstate 280 and the Golden Gate Bridge. The remainder, in San Mateo County, was bypassed or replaced by I-280, the Junipero Serra Freeway. The boulevard was one of several new roads built along the San Francisco Peninsula before the age of freeways, and became a state highway known as Route 237 in 1956, receiving the State Route 117 designation in the 1964 renumbering, only to be deleted from the state highway system the next year. Two other regional highways—Bayshore Highway and Skyline Boulevard—were also upgraded into or bypassed by freeways.
Rancho Buri Buri was a 14,639-acre (59.24 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Mateo County, California, given in 1835 by Governor José Castro to José Antonio Sánchez. The name derives from the Urebure village of the Ramaytush speaking Yelamu tribe of Ohlone people who were settled by the banks of San Bruno Creek. Rancho Buri Buri extended between the north line of South San Francisco and the middle of Burlingame, and from the San Francisco Bay to the top of the Peninsula ridge and included present-day Lomita Park, Millbrae, South San Francisco, San Bruno, and the northern part of Burlingame.
Peninsula Athletic League (PAL) is a high school athletic conference in California, part of the CIF Central Coast Section of the California Interscholastic Federation. It comprises 17 high schools generally around San Mateo County, California. There are also nine smaller schools, designated supplemental members, of which four are located in Santa Clara County. The seventeen sports offered are divided into different divisions depending on the strength of the school's program.
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