| 1947 | Started as a special school for medicine at Ofusa-cho, Kashihara-shi. |
| 1948 | Transformed to a medical university. The building for Basic Medicine moved to Unebi-cho, Kashihara-shi. |
| 1949 | Library started in the Basic Medicine building, also borrowing a space from the Kashihara Branch of the Nara Prefectural Library and also from the Administration Department of the University. Hospital Library was opened the same year to be used as a meeting room as well. |
| 1951 | Library joined the Japan Medical Library Association. |
| 1959 | Library moved temporarily to the fourth floor of the newly built Basic Medicine building (present Clinical Research Building). |
| 1961 | The former Library building completed in November. |
| 1979 | The present Library building completed in April. Online information retrieval services started. |
| 1985 | Book Detection System installed. |
| 1989 | Started connecting to NACSIS-CAT cataloging system (The National Center for Science Information Systems of the Minister of Education, Science, Sports and Culture). |
| 1991 | Library hours extended from 18:00 to 22:00. |
| 1994 | CD-LAN information retrieval started. |
| 1999 | Intra-campus information retrieval started. |
| 2003 | Supervising system for Library installed. Library hours unattended by staff started for Saturdays and the night time of weekdays. A new checking-out system began with magnetic cards and bar codes. |
| 2004 | Library of the Nursing School changed to a branch of the main Library in April. Total library management system (CARIN) started in May. |