The library holds and collects publications on the subjects of the museum’s two departments of airship aviation and art.

The bulk and core of the uniquely complete collection of publications on aviation comprise books and journals on the history and technology of regional, national and international aviation and on Zeppelin development as well as biographies of the persons and the stories of the companies involved in these fields.

As the library entertains exchanges and correspondence with regional and supraregional art museums, it has been able to collect a great number and variety of art books and journals. The collecting priority is publications on 20th-century artists who were born around Lake Constance or lived and worked in the region.

The library is an open-shelf, non-lending library. This means the books and journals are freely accessible on shelves in the reading room, but may be read only there.