The Kazakh National University of Arts is a higher educational institution that represents a unified system of continuous comprehensive education for the training of creative professional personnel in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The university was opened in Astana on the basis of a decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated March 31, 1998 on the basis of the Kazakh National Academy of Music. The base of the educational institution was the Akmola (formerly Tselinograd) College of Arts and children's music school No. 1. The idea of creating a higher musical educational institution of the republic in the young capital belongs to the First President of the country N.A. Nazarbayev. The main task of the new creative higher educational institution is to educate personnel capable of serving at a high professional level to the development of the spirituality of our country, the formation of the musical infrastructure of the capital and the opening of opportunities for the dynamic development of spiritual life in Kazakhstan.

Information and library activities of the educational institution began in 1998 with the mini-library of the Akmola Music College and Music School. The initial book stock amounted to 42,270 copies. Currently, the book fund numbers more than 200,000 copies, the main part of which consists of music publications and scientific literature on all specialties of the university.

In 2011, based on the new KABIS program, a system for automating library bibliographic processes was implemented. Since September 2019, library and bibliographic processes have been transferred to the automated library system “IRBIS 64”. Access to the electronic catalog and full-text electronic databases from any library computer is carried out locally through the web interface of the IRBIS information library.

In the cultural and educational space of Kazakhstan, the university library, as one of the leading creative universities in the country, has its own values, objectives and vision.
Mission of information and library activities:

- storage, management and provision of the library's scientific collection;
- providing users with the necessary resources;
- formation of a system of high-quality library services.

The library is located in the buildings of the university on Tauelsizdik Avenue, 50 and the college on Pobedy Avenue, 33, which are located in picturesque areas of the city of Astana.

The university library is intended to serve higher-level students, master's and doctoral students, and teaching staff (teaching staff). Library, bibliographic and information services are provided at 11 points: subscription, reading rooms, scientific literature hall, rare and valuable books hall, catalog hall, periodicals hall and media library.

Students, teachers and researchers have a wide opportunity to use educational, scientific, fiction, reference literature, as well as old, rare and valuable publications of the 19th-20th centuries, where unique publications of world classical music, operas, folk music, jazz, music and cinema, to receive qualified advice necessary in the process of writing essays, dissertations, coursework, diploma and scientific papers.

The library has all the conditions to implement the idea of bringing musicians from their first step to a high professional level. The library halls are equipped with instruments for playing and listening to works, video equipment, and televisions for watching films.

The college has a subscription service, a media library and a common reading room equipped with computers. Today, the library's computer park includes 55 computers connected to the Internet, a multimedia fund, a local computer network, scanners, printers, video duals, and copying machines.

The library has introduced an innovative, modern ABIS “IRBIS 64”, which made it possible to automate all production processes of the library: acquisition and book supply of the collection, creation and support of databases, servicing readers online, etc. The library forms and develops the University Electronic Library, which represents a full-text database data and numbering over 1790 documents.

Readers receive unlimited access to the Kazakhstan National Electronic Library (KazNEB), the Republican Interuniversity Electronic Library (RIEL), Web of Science (Thomson Reuters), Scopus, Springer Link, Science Direct in domestic and world databases. Library staff provide ongoing advice on the use of databases.