國防科技大學圖書館創建於1953年，前身爲哈爾濱軍事工程學院圖書館，1970年隨學校主體南遷長沙，1999年原長沙炮兵學院、長沙工程兵學院、長沙政治學院併入國防科技大學後，三個學院的圖書館也先後併入國防科技大學圖書館。目前圖書館有三座館舍，分別坐落在一、三、四號院區，建築總面積47000多平方米，閱覽座位4300多個，每週開放90小時。
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.
國防科技大學圖書館建立了以理工類重點學科爲核心，以軍事文獻爲特色，理、工、軍、文、管、經、哲協調發展的文獻資源體系。現有印刷型文獻330多萬冊(件)，其中：中外文圖書230多萬冊，縮微平片90萬件，印刷型科技報告及內部資料10萬冊。每年訂購中外文現刊3400多種。建成了包括98個大型綜合數據庫，160餘個專題數據庫或子庫的數字圖書館，實現了SCI、EI、CPCI-S(原ISTP)三大系統及其他各類外文文獻數據庫的國際同步檢索。與國內外圖書情報機構建立了廣泛的資源共享與合作關係。
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over 2,300,000 Chinese and foreign books,900,000 microfiches and 100,000 copies of paper-based sci-tech reports and unpublished data.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.
國防科技大學圖書館堅持“以人爲本，讀者第一”的服務宗旨，採用“藏、借、閱、查、諮”一體的現代化管理模式，實現了跨院區的統一管理、統一編目、統一檢索和通借通還。在做好基礎服務的同時，藉助現代技術，拓寬服務渠道，創新服務模式，積極開展用戶培訓、參考諮詢、科技查新、館際互借、文獻傳遞、定題服務、資訊推送等深層次服務。
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.