The Library of the Academy of Music is as old as the institution. Over the century, it has developed from an initial reference collection of 249 titles for teaching purposes, selected from the personal libraries of faculty members into the central music library in the country, serving the faculty and students of the Academy, as well as other professional musicians, researchers, and music enthusiasts.

For the first sixty years, the library was located in the premises of the Croatian Music Institute where the Academy was a tenant.

After several changes of rectors and deans, wars, and social transformations during the process of creating the idea for the building and its decades-long construction, on Saturday, November 29, 2014, the library began moving to the new building of the Academy of Music, located at Trg maršala Tita 12 (now Trg Republike Hrvatske). For the first time in the history of the Academy, the library has a reading room for forty users, equipped with twelve computers with internet access and two keyboards with notation software. The room also contains sound reproduction devices (a turntable for shellac records, a turntable for digitizing vinyl records, cassette and CD players), a photocopier/scanner, and a desktop scanner. The shelves of this space are full of valuable modern reference literature available in open access.

(For a more detailed text about the library, see the monograph: 100 godina glazbe: učenjem, stvaranjem, istraživanjem… (urn:nbn:hr:116:631728)