It's back! Summer Learning Challenge 2018 begins June 1st, 2018. The Summer Learning Challenge is a fun -- and free -- way to engage children, families and even adults by challenging them to read books, explore new activities and learn new skills. This year we are going digital with the launch of an innovative site…
Goths Just Wanna Have Fun
Tuesday, May 22 is World Goth Day, a time to take pleasure (or pain) in all things dark: music, movies, clothes. Sometimes people don't get it: why dress in black, listen to depressing music, and spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about coffins? However, to anyone who's of this nature, it's a desirable state…
Online Resources Just Got Easier to Use!
San Mateo County Libraries now offers short, easy-to-follow video tutorials that can help you get the most out of our Online Resources. Ever wanted to try out an eBook, but didn’t know where to start? Want to try one of our streaming video services? Our video tutorials can help! To find our video tutorials, you’ll…
World Turtle Day
May 23rd is World Turtle Day, and the nonprofit American Tortoise Rescue is encouraging everyone to "shellebrate" our fine reptile friends. What a great time to eat a turtle sundae and listen to The Turtles' classic hit, "Happy Together"! The American Tortoise Rescue formed in 2000 to advocate for the survival of turtles and tortoises…
Review: Good Time
For some people, it’s a bit hard to become invested in movies or TV shows with unrelatable or unlikeable characters, more so when those characters commit heinous crimes. The characters can only murder so many times before the audience starts to question whether their investment in the character is justified. Walter White, Tony Soprano, Don…
Celebrating Cinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo, a time-honored and revered holiday in the Mexican and Mexican-American community, commemorates the victory of the Mexican Army in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. The holiday celebrates a victory over the French forces that invaded and occupied parts of Mexico. The History When two previous wars left the Mexican…
Bay Area Bike to Work Day is May 10
Energizer Stations for Bike to Work Day Tens of thousands of regular and first-time Bay Area residents will bike to work for the 24th Annual Bike to Work Day (BTWD) on Thursday, May 10, 2018, part of National Bike Month. More than 40 Energizer Stations in San Mateo County will give people on bikes a…
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month was established to recognize the contributions of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. May was officially selected by Congress in 1992 to honor the first Japanese immigration to the United States on May 7, 1843. The month of May was also chosen to pay tribute to Chinese immigrants…
Free Comic Book Day 2018
Free Comic Book Day is an annual event founded on the belief that for every person out there, there’s a comic book they’ll love. Every year, on the first Saturday in May, the industry comes together to give away free comics. This year FCBD happens on Saturday, May 5th, 2018 and features an amazing selection…
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