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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 2009
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Monographs 38,942 1,062 1,452 1,407 42,863
Books (2) 29,605 520 551 372 31,048
Pamphlets <16 pages (3) 2,426 156 336 333 3,251
Pamphlets >16 pages (4) 2,074 221 293 299 2,887
Loose pages (5) 2,020 60 222 244 2,546
Cinema guides 43 0 0 0 43
Musical scores 658 3 1 0 662
Electronic resources (monographs) 1,080 89 39 116 1,324
CD-ROM 1,036 13 10 43 1,102
Periodical publications (no. 1) 820 129 54 53 1,056
Newspapers 3 0 0 0 3
Magazines 362 109 41 47 559
Official newsletters 0 1 0 0 1
Reports 232 13 9 5 259
Annuals 214 0 3 1 218
Electronic resources (periodical publ.) 9 6 1 0 16
Periodical publications (sec. no.) 24,440 6,938 4,386 3,049 38,813
Graphic documents 3,187 123 262 589 4,161
Posters 565 38 185 365 1,153
Laminas 596 3 6 15 620
Maps and plans 360 27 18 16 421
Postcards 1,352 21 10 109 1,492
Greeting cards 164 0 0 0 164
Others (6) 150 34 43 84 311
Sound, audiovisual and electronic docs 4,462 115 53 34 4,664
Vinyl discs 155 24 13 0 192
Compact discs (CD) 1,881 64 35 15 1,995
DVD 2,302 26 4 11 2,343
Videos 4 0 0 0 4
Blue-Ray/HD 36 1 1 0 38
Multimedia 65 0 0 8 73
Others 19 0 0 0 19
Total 71,851 8,367 6,207 5,132 91,557
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 16 page documents.
(4) 17 to 48 page documents.
(5) Printed documents with 1 to 4 pages. Laminas, prayer sheets and auca (cartoon strips), for example, are not considered loose sheets.
(6) Sticker albums, stickers, trading cards, printed games, playing cards, etc.

Last update: March 13, 2012.

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 "..".