2022

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak, placed his gift on the People's Bookshelf without telling anyone during the Joint Expeditionary Force summit on 19 December

This gift was later officially presented to the Library by Britain’s Ambassador to Latvia Paul Brummell on 11 January

A gift from Student Fraternity Lettgallia on 2 December

The gift is presented to Ieva Gundare, Director NLL Communications department

A gift from Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union on 29 November


The gift is presented to Ieva Gundare, Director NLL Communications department

A gift from Hervé Brusini, President of the Albert Londres Prize on 28 November


The gift is presented to Katrīna Kukaine, Director NLL Development department

A gift from Bujar Osmani, Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia on 11 November


The gift was presented to Katrīna Kukaine, Director NLL Development department

National Library of Moldova Director Elena Pintilei presented a book to the People’s Bookshelf during her visit to the NLL

It, along with other gifts, was accepted by Katrīna Kukaine, Director of the NLL’s Development department on 3 November

The book Atslēgas. Gadsimta vēstures atradumi (Keys. A Century of Historical Finds) commemorates the late Mārtiņš Ķibilds’ series of documentaries for Latvijas Televīzija. Ilze Grase-Ķibilde presents it on 2 November, the day of the book’s launch.


The donation is presented to Ieva Gundare, Director NLL Communications department

A gift from Javier Alcides Bonagas de Gracia, Ambassador of Panama to Latvia


The gift is presented to Viktorija Piščikova, NLL Advisor, International cooperation

The gift of Jānis Baiks, Chairman of the Valmiera District Municipal Council. It was presented during the Valmiera District Day at the NLL on 1 October


The gift is accepted by NLL Deputy Director Anda Lamaša

A gift from Serhyi Holovaty, Acting President of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on 14 September


The gift is presented to Katrīna Kukaine, Director of NLL’s Development department

A gift from Zanda Zilgalve, Head of IT Education Foundation START IT on 11 August


The gift is presented to Augusts Zilberts, Head of NLL Public Relations

A donation of Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Maldives on 22 July.


The donation is received by Dzintra Mukāne, NLL’s Deputy director

The donation of Artūrs Raudziņš, co-author of basketball player Armandas Škēle's biographical book Starp dzīvi un basketbolu (Between Life and Basketball), on 20 June.


The donation is received byToms Herings, chief bibliographer of the NLL Art Reading Room and captain of the NLL basketball team

A gift from Jürgen Boos, CEO of Frankfurt Book fair,
14 June


The gift is received by Dagnija Baltiņa, Director of NLL Special Collections department

A donation of the Greek President
Katerina Sakellaropoulou on 2 June.


Dagnija Baltiņa, Director of the NLL Special Collections Department, accepts the donation in the presence of Latvian President Egils Levits, First Lady Anda Levite, and Pavlos Kotsonis, the Greek President’s husband

A donation from inventor Alan Amron (USA) on 27 May.

The donation is received by Augusts Zilberts, NLL Head of Public relations
Photo: Augusts Zilberts

The donation of Jean-François Chougnet, Director of the Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean (MUCEM) in Marseille (France) and Mikael Mohamed, its Head of International Relations, on 25 May


Katrīna Kukaine, Director of the NLL’s Development Department, accepts the donation

Celebrating the centenary of the Latvian Olympic Committee (LOC), LOC president Žoržs Tikmers presented a donation to NLL Director Andris Vilks on 5 May

A gift from Sahiba Gafarova, speaker of the National Assembly (Milli Mailis) of the Azerbaijan Republic


The gift is presented to NLL Executive Director Dzintra Mukāne