South San Francisco Public Library, Public library in South San Francisco, United States.

South San Francisco Public Library is a public library in a California city offering multiple reading and work areas with computer workstations. The building also features meeting rooms and event spaces for the community.

In 1914 teacher Rue Clifford rode through town on horseback collecting petition signatures for a public library. Andrew Carnegie funded and supplied plans for the Grand Avenue library, built in 1916. A new city library opened on West Orange Avenue in 1966, after which Grand Avenue became the branch. Voters approved a sales tax in 2015 for a new building; the Orange Avenue main library closed in summer 2023 and the combined main library and parks and recreation center on Civic Campus Way opened in October 2023.

The Grand Avenue branch holds a sizable Spanish-language collection, and the library runs story times in Spanish alongside English sessions. Project Read offers free literacy tutoring for English-speaking adults, while the Community Learning Center teaches English classes, native-language literacy in Spanish and kindergarten preparation for the city's multicultural residents.

The library has three locations: the Main Library on Civic Campus Way, opened in October 2023, the Grand Avenue branch, and a third site. The Grand Avenue branch holds a sizable Spanish-language collection, and the Main library carries the Figoni Opera Collection, the largest opera CD and DVD collection in Northern California.

The Grand Avenue branch holds the South San Francisco History Room, established in 1967 in the library basement. Its roughly 2,000 photographs and slides date from the 1850s onward, alongside school yearbooks from 1917 and Sanborn maps of 1910 and 1929.