Miami Public Library Literacy Programs

Program Overview

Excel Adult High School: This program helps adults over 25 earn their high school diploma online at no cost, offering a flexible learning environment. If seats are unavailable, we connect participants with local tech schools and colleges.

Health Literacy: We promote healthy lifestyles through physical activity classes and educational sessions on nutrition and mental wellness, empowering informed health choices.

Financial Literacy: Offers in-person classes and online resources on money management, budgeting, and investing to help achieve financial stability.

Digital Literacy: Training in internet basics, Canva, and cybersecurity to enhance digital skills.

Dolly Parton Imagination Library: In partnership with the Friends of the Library, we ensure that children in Ottawa County receive a free book monthly from birth - age 5.

1,000 Books Before Kindergarten: Encourages parents to read 1,000 books with their children before kindergarten, fostering early literacy and family connections.

Cost Info

Student and Volunteer Success Stories

"Seeing the amazing literacy programs the library offers just warms my heart. I have been helping tutor adults for several years at Miami Public Library. Because of all their new resources, but I still meet with students occasionally. The library has really increased their literacy services since COVID. Expanding to add Financial Literacy, Health Literacy, Digital Literacy. They now have some amazing online resources as well for people who can't make it physically to the library. It really is amazing." Mr. Mark, Library Volunteer Tutor

“I finally found this program that actually let me do it on my time. So I would come home at night and when I got off at midnight, sometimes do school work until 3 a.m., go to bed, get up at two in the afternoon, do some school work, go to work at four and just repeat it," said Excel High School Graduate, Jessica Martin.