The specialized library has over 45,000 volumes, mostly dedicated to the history of theater, cinema and entertainment in its all forms, 10,000 theater programs and 1360 titles from Italian and foreign sector magazines. Over the years, the personal libraries of Tommaso Salvini, Cesare Vico Lodovici, Sabatino Lopez, Silvio d'Amico, Paolo Stoppa, Alba Maria Setaccioli, Lilla Brignone, Corrado Pavolini, Roberto Chiti, Guido Ceronetti, Elsa de 'Giorgi, Alessandro Fersen, the Salvini family and many other personalities have joined the MBA. All the bibliographic material is catalogued on SBN (National Library System) and can be searched online on opac.sbn.it.