General conditions for the acceptance of financial or in kind donations (books, different sources of information, equipments…) :

• Donations to the Lebanese Library shall be accepted without any conditions made by the donor. They must meet the Library's needs and shall be subject to the collection development policy;
• It is preferable for financial donations to be in the form of a grant for a defined project with a specific budget, and for the money to be spent like any public funds;
• The expenditure of financial donations shall be overseen by a special committee appointed by the Minister of Culture or by the Board of Directors;
• The committee shall retain all proof of payment of the financial donation;
• No room or other area of the Library shall bear the donor's name;
• The donor's name shall be mentioned in the list of donors and contributors of the National Library in a framework that is yet to be determined;
• The donor's name and date of donation shall be mentioned on the website of the Library in accordance with an agreement;
• The donor's name and date of donation shall be stamped on the flyleaf of the book;
• The Library reserves the right to choose documents to be kept and to suggest to other libraries those that do not meet its needs;
• In general, donated books and collections shall be integrated into the Library's collection according to the classification system adopted by the Library ; no special area shall be assigned to them;
• In some cases, the Library may decide to expose an offered collection as an entity (ex. exhibition of the private collection of a renowned figure...);
• Personal archives shall be conserved as a single and complete collection.