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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 2016
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Text documents 22,627 1,391 1,005 1,383 26,406
Books 15,914 852 359 687 17,812
Coursebooks 1,611 0 0 6 1,617
Facsimile/collector's editions 32 0 0 2 34
Pamphlets <16 pages 1,607 140 179 219 2,145
Pamphlets >16 pages 632 127 137 219 1,115
Loose pages 1,089 212 268 99 1,668
Cinema guides 30 0 0 0 30
Musical scores 892 14 0 0 906
Electronic resources (monographs) 794 44 58 99 995
CD-ROM 13 0 3 45 61
Other formats 13 2 1 7 23
Periodical publications (no. 1) 26,720 3,334 3,373 1,772 35,199
Newspapers 0 1 0 0 1
Magazines 206 54 16 25 301
Official newsletters 0 0 0 0 0
Reports 29 7 3 1 40
Annuals 46 1 0 0 47
Electronic resources (periodical publ.) 39 0 0 2 41
Periodical publications (sec. no.) 26,400 3,271 3,354 1,744 34,769
Graphic documents 1,390 321 381 284 2,376
Posters 432 160 355 212 1,159
Laminas 139 0 6 0 145
Maps and plans 387 25 10 22 444
Postcards 230 26 1 22 279
Greeting cards 58 0 1 0 59
Others 144 110 8 28 290
Audiovisual documents 2,496 123 55 23 2,697
Vinyl discs (LPs i altres) 121 3 15 1 140
Compact discs (CD) 1,354 109 29 10 1,502
DVD 712 11 4 5 732
Blue-Ray/HD 274 0 0 1 275
Multimedia 0 0 7 5 12
Films 33 0 0 1 34
Others 2 0 0 0 2
Total 53,233 5,169 4,814 3,462 66,678
Source: Biblioteca de Catalunya.

Last update: March 1, 2017.

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 "..".