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

Publishing production. Legal deposit in Catalonia. By type of document. Provinces 2012
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Monographs 26,993 1,370 1,040 814 30,217
Books 20,342 842 388 366 21,938
Pamphlets <16 pages 1,095 37 194 112 1,438
Pamphlets >16 pages 616 123 145 128 1,012
Loose pages 972 161 239 120 1,492
Cinema guides 33 0 0 0 33
Musical scores 459 4 2 1 466
Electronic resources (monographs) 3,251 200 62 45 3,558
CD-ROM 225 3 10 42 280
Periodical publications (no. 1) 535 97 51 31 714
Newspapers 7 0 0 1 8
Magazines 226 83 41 24 374
OOfficial newsletters 0 0 0 0 0
Reports 136 12 8 4 160
Annuals 125 0 1 0 126
Electronic resources (periodical publ.) 41 2 1 2 46
Periodical publications (sec. no.) 20,875 3,562 3,426 2,443 30,306
Graphic documents 2,153 215 181 340 2,889
Posters 265 71 149 166 651
Laminas 123 5 10 2 140
Maps and plans 415 17 4 4 440
Postcards 1,092 60 2 123 1,277
Greeting cards 133 0 0 0 133
Others 125 62 16 45 248
Sound, audiovisual and electronic docs 3,217 131 89 25 3,462
Vinyl discs 76 5 31 1 113
Compact discs (CD) 1,414 109 36 12 1,571
DVD 1,378 13 16 11 1,418
Vídeos 1 0 0 0 1
Blue-Ray/HD 324 0 0 0 324
Multimedia 7 4 6 1 18
Others 17 0 0 0 17
Total 53,773 5,375 4,787 3,653 67,588
Source: Biblioteca de Catalunya.

Last update: February 18, 2013.

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 "..".