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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 2017
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Text documents 25,117 1,282 955 1,106 28,460
Books 16,295 765 370 603 18,033
Coursebooks 1,310 2 5 3 1,320
Facsimile/collector's editions 22 2 1 0 25
Pamphlets <16 pages 1,682 182 155 161 2,180
Pamphlets >16 pages 763 103 153 140 1,159
Loose pages 1,184 175 271 172 1,802
Cinema guides 3 1 0 0 4
Musical scores 3,618 18 0 0 3,636
Electronic resources (monographs) 78 0 0 18 96
CD-ROM 47 5 0 6 58
Documents carregats a COFRE 93 0 0 3 96
Other formats 22 29 0 0 51
Periodical publications (no. 1) 29,108 1,854 2,865 2,274 36,101
Newspapers 0 0 0 0 0
Magazines 156 27 17 20 220
Official newsletters 0 0 0 0 0
Reports 26 3 15 2 46
Annuals 26 0 0 0 26
Electronic resources (periodical publ.) 0 0 0 0 0
Periodical publications (sec. no.) 28,900 1,824 2,833 2,252 35,809
Graphic documents 1,350 200 432 311 2,293
Posters 636 130 356 283 1,405
Laminas 27 1 2 4 34
Maps and plans 216 14 11 14 255
Postcards 155 4 0 3 162
Greeting cards 127 0 0 0 127
Others 189 51 63 7 310
Audiovisual documents 2,181 64 107 24 2,376
Vinyl discs (LPs i altres) 127 0 66 1 194
Compact discs (CD) 1,095 60 35 15 1,205
DVD 711 2 6 5 724
Blue-Ray/HD 198 1 0 1 200
Multimedia 0 0 0 0 0
Films 45 1 0 1 47
Others 5 0 0 1 6
Total 57,756 3,400 4,359 3,715 69,230
Source: Biblioteca de Catalunya.

Last update: March 21, 2018.

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 "..".