Located in the main building of the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP), this library was established in 1966 alongside the creation of the school. However, it was officially inaugurated in 1970, after becoming independent from the former Central Library of the University of São Paulo and from the Department of Library and Information Science. In the early 1990s, it was known as the Maria Luisa Monteiro da Cunha Library.