diff --git a/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/blas.jl b/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/blas.jl
index 074197176d38f..a31a7349b189b 100644
--- a/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/blas.jl
+++ b/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/blas.jl
@@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ export
 const libblastrampoline = "libblastrampoline"
 libblastrampoline_handle = C_NULL
 
+# Legacy bindings that some packages (such as NNlib.jl) use.
+# We maintain these for backwards-compatibility but new packages
+# should not look at these, instead preferring to parse the output
+# of BLAS.get_config()
+const libblas = libblastrampoline
+const liblapack = libblastrampoline
+
 import LinearAlgebra
 import LinearAlgebra: BlasReal, BlasComplex, BlasFloat, BlasInt, DimensionMismatch, checksquare, stride1, chkstride1, axpy!