The Library offers a wide range of volumes ranging from the history of locomotion and automotive factories, biographies and autobiographies of influential figures in the field, to illustrated catalogs and technical works. It also features a section devoted to antique books, containing true rarities on the history of mechanics and science from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The Emeroteca, on the other hand, preserves more than 800 titles, from the first automotive magazine dated 1899 to contemporary periodicals, offering a broad overview of the history of the automobile through the decades.

The documentary holdings have been acquired over the years thanks to important donations, first and foremost that of the founder Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia, who, in addition to having collected, since the establishment of the Museum, the documents accompanying the acquisitions of the museum collection, donated his valuable documentary collection and a collection of graphic works, which he executed, that tell the story of the automobile from its beginnings to the first half of the 20th century.