Una Biblioteca para la Investigación en Estudios Árabes is the title that we have chosen for the article in which we take stock of the function that our library has played in the development of the research and teaching activity of our institution and demonstrate the fundamental role it continues to play to face the new scientific, social and technological.It can be read in the last issue of Enredadera, the electronic magazine of the CSICNetwork of Libraries and Archives, dedicated, this time to the Libraries and Archives of Research Centers: