国防科技大学图书馆创建于1953年，前身为哈尔滨军事工程学院图书馆，1970年随学校主体南迁长沙，1999年原长沙炮兵学院、长沙工程兵学院、长沙政治学院并入国防科技大学后，三个学院的图书馆也先后并入国防科技大学图书馆。目前图书馆有三座馆舍，分别坐落在一、三、四号院区，建筑总面积47000多平方米，阅览座位4300多个，每周开放90小时。
NUDT Library was originally set up in Harbin in 1953. Its predecessor, known as Library of PLAMilitary Engineering Institute (MEI), was moved southward to Changsha together with the main body of the institute in 1970. In 1999, as Changsha Institute of Artillery, Changsha Institute of Engineering Corps and Changsha Institute of Political Science were incorporated into NUDT, the libraries of the three institutes were also merged into NUDT Library. At present, the Library comprises three branches which lie on Campus 1, 3 and 4 respectively, covering a total area of over 47,000 m2 with 4,300-odd seats open 90hours a week.
国防科技大学图书馆建立了以理工类重点学科为核心，以军事文献为特色，理、工、军、文、管、经、哲协调发展的文献资源体系。现有印刷型文献330多万册(件)，其中：中外文图书230多万册，缩微平片90万件，印刷型科技报告及内部资料10万册。每年订购中外文现刊3400多种。建成了包括98个大型综合数据库，160余个专题数据库或子库的数字图书馆，实现了SCI、EI、CPCI-S(原ISTP)三大系统及其他各类外文文献数据库的国际同步检索。与国内外图书情报机构建立了广泛的资源共享与合作关系。
NUDT Library has established a system of literature resources that focuses on key disciplines in science and engineering, features military literature and develops in balance in science, engineering, military, literature, management, economics and philosophy. The Library now boastsover 3,300,000 printed documents (copies), including over 2,300,000 Chinese and foreign books,900,000 microfiches and 100,000 copies of paper-based sci-tech reports and unpublished data. She subscribes to more than 3400 journals and periodicalsfrom home and abroadeach year. The established digital library, constituted of 98 largecomprehensive databases and 160special databases or sub-databases, has achieved internationalsynchronized retrievalamong SCI, EI, CPCI-S (formerly called ISTP) and otherforeign literature databases. The Library has built extensive resources-sharing and cooperative relationships with domestic and foreign libraries and information sectors.
国防科技大学图书馆坚持“以人为本，读者第一”的服务宗旨，采用“藏、借、阅、查、咨”一体的现代化管理模式，实现了跨院区的统一管理、统一编目、统一检索和通借通还。在做好基础服务的同时，借助现代技术，拓宽服务渠道，创新服务模式，积极开展用户培训、参考咨询、科技查新、馆际互借、文献传递、定题服务、信息推送等深层次服务。
By following the service philosophy of “People Oriented, Readers First”, NUDT Library has introduced a modern management mode integrating “book reservation, loan, reading, searching and consultation” and brought about unified management, catalog-making, retrieval and inter-branch loan and returning. While doing well in the basic services, the Library extends service channels, innovates service models and actively provides user training, reference and advisory service, sci-tech novelty search, inter-library loan, document delivery, selective dissemination of information, information push and other in-depth services using modern technology.