Developments of legal deposit in Latvia

In the previous Legal Deposit Law the number of legal deposits was too large and publishers were discontent with this fact. The expenses of publishing have grown through the years and publishers did not want to deliver legal deposits to the National Library of Latvia. Nowadays the popularity of electronic publications has increased and legislature had to provide a new Legal Deposit Law. But there are some questions - does this law change the attitude of publishers and how do the processes of electronic publications conservancy evolve. In this paper we will try to answer these questions, as well as try to show tendencies of development in this field.