The method of visual communication design is helpful to strengthen the facilities for literature guidance, enhance the use value of reading space, optimize the library digital service and provide effective tools for creating the library's own brand culture. Through the description of visual communication design, this paper analyzed the role of graphic propaganda, spatial design and information technology in the process of library literature promotion. Based on the over-years experience in library, some common problems of visual communication design in the promotion of library literature were discussed, and the solution as possible was put forward.