In the period from 1952 until 2016, a Serbian Library “Katarina Jovanovic” existed in Zurich. It was the fifth most significant library in the Serbian diaspora. Until this paper, no light has been cast on its significance in any detailed or scientific manner. This paper aims to show the historical genesis, development and termination of the Serbian Library “Katarina Jovanovic” in Zurich. The birth of the idea, the first organized activities, finding an adequate location and collecting library volumes, institutionalization within the Swiss government system, the arising issues and the termination of activi­ties, with interesting details from the life of the library, present the concept of this paper.