The University Central Scientific Library was founded along with the University on the initiative of Vasyl Karazin in 1804. The overall holdings of the University Central Scientific Library contain over 3,350,000 books.
Readers of the Library have at their disposal 5 circulation divisions, twelve reading rooms, an interlibrary circulating office, two special rooms for catalogs, the Center for Internet Technologies of the Library, a hall of literature on history of the University, a hall of area studies literature of Greece and Cyprus, the Window on America Information Center.
The Central Scientific Library server stores the full-text versions of study and teaching aids. By using the Internet, the electronic catalog enables you to make an online order and to have access to your virtual library card around the clock.
The University Library has a division of rare books. It is a book storeroom with the collection of valuable books, manuscripts, archive documents, containing 955 units. Among them there are incunabula, palaeotypes, foreign early printed books, editions on Glagolitic and Cyrillic script, universals (manifestos of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), documents of political significance,etc. Chronological scope of these valuable books covers the period from the 14th to 20th centuries.