南开大学图书馆建于1919年,馆址最初设在南开中学南端一教室。1923年随学校迁入新校舍。1927年卢木斋先生损资兴建木斋图书馆,1928年落成,至1937年抗战爆发前,图书馆建设已颇具规模。1937年7月底,图书馆惨遭日军轰炸,大部分图书、报刊毁于炮火或遭劫。之后,图书馆随校南迁,与清 Nankai University Library was built in 1919, the museum was originally located in the southern end of a classroom Nankai Middle School. In 1923 with the school moved to the new school building. In 1927, Mr. Lu Muzhai lost money to build the wooden library, which was completed in 1928. Before the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1937, the library construction was quite large in scale. By the end of July 1937, the library was brutally bombed by the Japanese and most of the books and newspapers were destroyed by artillery or robbed. After that, the library moved to the south with the school