The history of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Library is indivisibly connected with the history of glorious Academy, which has begun a development of higher education in Ukraine.

The foundation of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Library was formed by Petro Mohyla’s book collection that he bequeathed to Academy together with jewelry. This collection numbered 2130 publications in different languages. This way Petro Mohyla started a tradition of granting books and book collections, which later on was kept up by many famous Ukrainian figures, graduates, professors of Academy. This tradition remained till today.

For the beginning of 2009 the holdings of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Research Library includes over 600 thousand volumes as well as about 300 thousand titles – electronic collection. The UKMA Library is well-known in Ukraine and abroad as a pioneer in NIT, e-recourses’ management etc.