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W.K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library at Dalhousie University holds the University Libraries' biomedical collections and provides services to the faculties of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Professions, as well as to health professionals throughout the Maritime provinces.

In 1864 Dr. Charles Cogswell donated his personal medical library to the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, envisioning its use as a resource for future medical students and practitioners. The Cogswell Collection made up the greater part of the Cogswell Memorial Library, which was housed in the City Hospital before being moved to the Halifax Medical College around 1875. After the Medical College closed in 1910 and re-opened at Dalhousie College as the Faculty of Medicine, the Cogswell library moved to the Forrest Building. The original collection is now housed in Special Collections.

In 1937, the Medical Dental Library was built to accommodate the growing collection of the medical college and the newly formed Faculty of Dentistry. Thirty years later, in 1967 the W.K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library opened in the recently built Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building. It was named for philanthropist and entrepreneur William Keith Kellogg in recognition of his $420,000 donation earmarked for library resources. In 1986 the Kellogg Library, formerly administered by the Faculty of Medicine, became part of the Dalhousie University Libraries system.

Between December 2015 and January 2017 the Kellogg Library was temporarily relocated in Chapter House while renovations were completed in the Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building. In January 2016 a health sciences learning commons was created in the newly constructed Collaborative Health Education Building (CHEB).