[Purpose/significance] Living folk music culture resources refers to the music resources which is lived, developed and survived in folk. To save the folk music culture and show the survival state of living music, China Conservatory Library established the project team in 2004 for collecting and saving the living music resources actively.[Method/process] Guided by the methods of anthropology and ethnomusicology, this paper takes the way of "going out and coming in" to integrate the folk music and its relevant cultural matters, and collects the first-hand information in the form of audio, video, and others.[Result/conclusion] Construction of living folk music culture resources is a huge project about music literature, plays an important role in construction of special resources, art practice and cultural heritage, and brings about the great challenges to the library work.