The Tangipahoa Parish Library, established in 1944, serves 128,755 residents of Amite City. The library system includes branches in Amite, Hammond, Independence, Kentwood, Loranger, and Ponchatoula, as well as a Genealogy Reference Collection at the Main Branch in Amite. The library system maintains 221,964 volumes and circulates roughly 345,120 items annually, including regular books, audiobooks, eBooks, movies, magazines, music, and other digital collections. It provides public computers, WiFi, mobile hotspots, printing, copying, & scanning, computer classes, genealogy classes, storytimes, and various library programs.