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Publishing production. Legal deposit in Catalonia. By type of document. Provinces

Publishing production. Legal deposit in Catalonia (1). By type of document. Provinces 2006
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalunya
Monografies 36,133 591 1,037 753 38,514
Llibres (2) 29,057 336 386 354 30,133
Fullets (3) 4,853 233 440 330 5,856
Fulls solts (4) 1,943 22 202 69 2,236
Guions de cinema 69 0 0 0 69
Microformes 0 0 0 0 0
Partitures musicals 211 0 9 0 220
Publicacions periòdiques (núm. 1) 928 79 49 66 1,122
Diaris 6 2 2 9 19
Revistes 490 74 44 56 664
Butlletins oficials 0 0 2 0 2
Memòries 221 2 0 1 224
Anuaris 211 1 1 0 213
Publicacions periòdiques (núm. seg.) 14,260 8,697 4,785 2,960 30,702
Documents gràfics 5,083 137 132 233 5,585
Cartells 534 50 81 107 772
Làmines 1,601 0 26 5 1,632
Mapes i plànols 458 24 2 7 491
Postals 2,096 24 16 49 2,185
Targetes i nadales 39 0 0 0 39
Altres (5) 355 39 7 65 466
Doc. sonors, audiovisuals i electrònics 6,804 67 77 58 7,006
Cassets 9 0 0 0 9
Discos de vinil 621 0 0 0 621
CDs 2,783 28 25 20 2,856
CD-ROMs 495 5 9 27 536
Disquets 0 0 0 0 0
Vídeos 363 0 4 2 369
Documents electrònics 396 23 30 0 449
DVDs 2,131 11 8 0 2,150
Multimèdia 6 0 1 9 16
Total 63,208 9,571 6,080 4,070 82,929
Source: Biblioteca de Catalunya.
Notes:
(1) The statistics reflect all documents presented to the Legal Deposit offices over the year, regardless of the year of the legal deposit and therefore the year of publication.
(2) Includes offprints of magazines (not magazine or newspaper supplements), revisions of pre-existing monographs and the first issue of collector's series.
(3) 5 to 48 page documents.
(4) Printed documents with 1 to 4 pages. Laminas, prayer sheets and auca (cartoon strips), for example, are not considered loose sheets.
(5) Sticker albums, stickers, trading cards, printed games, playing cards, etc.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Legal Deposit
Office that receives editorial and audiovisual productions. Its main function is to collect and preserve all production on any support and enable access to the same. The items that are provided to the Legal Deposit of Catalonia can be consulted by users of three centres: the Library of Catalonia, the provincial public libraries of Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona, and the National Library of Spain.

Methodological aspects

Data on publishing production is taken from different sources (INE, the Generalitat de Catalunya's Ministry of Culture data from the Spanish ISBN Agency, and the Library of Catalonia, with data on legal deposits). The divergence of the data is the result of each source relating to different phases of the publishing process. So, while the ISBN registration is made before publication and is in the name of the publisher, the legal deposit is made at the time of printing and is in the name of the printer.

The statistics reflect all documents presented to the Legal Deposit offices of Library of Catalonia over the year, regardless of the year of the legal deposit and therefore the year of publication.

  • Books: Includes offprints of magazines (not magazine or newspaper supplements), revisions of pre-existing monographs and the first issue of collector's series.
  • Coursebooks: contains explanations of a subject, and is used by school and university students.
  • Facsimile/collector's editions: editions that are published in limited quantities for a small audience. Copies are numbered and of a high, formal quality.
  • Pamphlets <16 pages: 5 to 16 page documents.
  • Pamphlets >16 pages: 17 to 48 page documents.
  • Loose pages: Printed documents with 1 to 4 pages. Laminas, prayer sheets and auca (cartoon strips), for example, are not considered loose sheets.
  • Electronic resources (periodical publ.): e-books and books that are published or disseminated via the internet. Includes doctoral theses published on TDC@t.
  • Others graphic documents: Sticker albums, stickers, trading cards, printed games, playing cards, etc.
  • Other audiovisual documents: audio and audiovisual files in other formats, for example memory cards.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".