This book is a collection of selected works related to the library of Kazan University and published mainly in the XIX - early XX centuries .. Added to their article on the role of H. and . Lobachevsky in the development of the library of Kazan University, prepared by N. In. Ermolayeva, modern employee of the library . Article A. and . Artemieva, included in the collection, the first special publication about the library, the more interesting because the author at that time himself was its employee. The collection includes extracts from the books of the first historiographer of Kazan University N. N. Buli, academician B. C. Iconnikova, librarian of Novorossiysk (Odessa) University P. C. Shesterikova, articles on the construction of a wonderful device for the library building, a section on the library from the report of Kazan University for 1914 . In. N. In his memoirs Nazariev strongly testifies about A. and . Artemieva as a mentor and librarian .