ECLA’s library, housed in a building belonging to the former West German mission to East Germany, located at Kuckhoffstrasse 41/43., provides access to an expanding book and visual media collection based on regular acquisitions made by faculty to support their teaching and research. The library offers the possibility of borrowing course books for all courses, and provides access to a number of newspapers and journals, including the New York Review of Books, Theater, Frieze, Artforum, Time Magazine, The Economist, The Financial Times, The International Herald Tribune and many others. The ECLA library also subscribes to JSTOR, one of the largest online electronic collections of scholarly journals in the humanities. The building features several semi-private reading rooms for study, as well as a lounge opening on a garden.

Students who seek library resources are also encouraged to use the Berlin Staatsbibliothek (public library), which is one of the largest libraries in Germany and has a collection of over ten million books and periodicals, including rare manuscripts.

ECLA Library's opening hours are:

Monday - Friday  2.00 pm - 11.00 pm  
Saturday                2.00 pm - 10.00 pm
Sunday                  12.00 pm - 10.00 pm

ECLA offers a comprehensive range of computer services supported by a first class server network covering the entire campus. Services include an ecla email address with unlimited storage capacity, free wireless internet access, free printing, and access to computer terminals across Campus.