The Academic Library of the University of Latvia (AL UL) is the structural unit of the University of Latvia, universal research library, national importance cultural and knowledge centre, the place where intellectual values are kept and maintained, and one of the oldest book depositories in Europe.        

Users have the access to 1,2 million books, 1,6  million copies of periodical publications, approximately 1 million manuscripts (90,659 units of manuscripts), 32 700 items of rare books and rare publications, personal computers with the Internet access, on-line and CD-ROM databases as well as unique local databases worked out by the AL UL. 

The AL UL compiles and publishes bibliographic indexes, carries out research in the areas of: library, bibliographic and book science, as well as the information technology.