
San Mateo County Libraries offer a special Teacher Card for teachers, home school educators, or daycare providers who live or work in our service area ( see list of participating libraries) and who want a separate library card for classroom use only. Visit San Mateo County Libraries youth library cards. Your browser does not support inline iframes. Start here to apply online for your youth library card today. San Mateo County Libraries have eliminated daily late fees for materials checked out to children and teens effective July 1, 2016. In honor of this policy change, we partnered with four amazing California-based artists and illustrators ( Lisa Brown, opens a new window, Joe Cepeda, opens a new window, Alina Chau, opens a new window, and Christian Robinson, opens a new window) to create some new beautifully designed youth library cards for children and teens to choose from. Your new library card will be mailed to you within 3 business days. If you live anywhere in San Mateo County, applying for a library card is as simple as applying online. Please be aware that remote use of some online resources is limited to cardholders of the subscribing library. Parents and legal guardians may request information about a child’s library records only if the child is present and consents to the release, or if the child is not present but provides dated written consent.A library card issued at any one of our Libraries entitles you to use the resources and services available at all the libraries, opens a new window in the Peninsula Library System.Information on the status of any card is available upon request to the cardholder only.Each user’s right to privacy and unrestricted access is reaffirmed by the ALA’s Library Bill of Rights and New York State Law, Article 45, Section 4509 on confidentiality.
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Please see the Fines & Fees section of our website for full details.


You may place holds on most items that are currently checked out to other patrons.To change this, please visit the library you'd like to switch to, or call the Central Library: 31.Your 'home library' defaults to the library where you got your library card.You will be notified by email or by phone when your item has become available. Most holds can be shipped and picked-up at the OCPL location of your choice. Select the library you want as the pick-up location.Enter your library card number and PIN when prompted.Find the item in the OCPL catalog, and choose Place Hold from the right hand menu.Please visit or call your local library, or call the Central Library: 31 to arrange this. Hold notifications as well as Overdue notices can be emailed to you.Due dates of all items you currently have checked out can be viewed online with your library card number and PIN in the My Account section.Your receipt, issued when you borrow materials, indicates the return dates.Some special materials, like Interlibrary Loan, new DVDs, and holiday books, may have different loan periods.

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Visit the How to Get a Card section, if you do not yet have an OCPL library card.
