The Kainan University Library was established in October of 2000. On December 7, 2005, the new Library Building opened for use. The new building has a floor area of more than 12,000 square meters and is able to hold more than half a million books. To meet the needs of students and faculties at the university, the library has collected books, periodicals, databases, e-journals resources and audiovisual materials in a wide range of fields such as management, social science, natural science, law, logistics, humanities and healthcare. The volume of books in collection at present is more than 300,000, the periodicals including Chinese, English and Japanese academic journals and magazines are nearly 22,000, which makes Kainan Library one of the larger library collections among private universities in Taiwan.

In addition, this new library features an international conference hall, reading area totally providing 1000 seats, many small and large-sized discussion rooms, groups multimedia rooms, 70 personal AV learning computer sets, several studies cubicles, and especially the Wi-Fi environment in the whole building. With such excellent facilities, it is believed that new Kainan Library will definitely help promote the atmosphere of reading, conducting researches and spontaneous self-learning in campus, and accordingly enhance the competence and competitiveness of students and teachers.