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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 2018
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Text documents 25,927 1,821 970 980 29,698
Books 16,241 1,192 416 416 18,265
Coursebooks 1,052 15 0 0 1,067
Facsimile/collector's editions 32 0 3 3 38
Pamphlets <16 pages 1,515 200 144 148 2,007
Pamphlets >16 pages 773 131 143 145 1,192
Loose pages 1,154 244 264 267 1,929
Cinema guides 1 0 0 0 1
Musical scores 5,010 32 0 0 5,042
Electronic resources (monographs) 0 0 0 1 1
CD-ROM 99 2 0 0 101
Documents carregats a COFRE 6 0 0 0 6
Other formats 44 5 0 0 49
Periodical publications (no. 1) 26,297 2,261 2,486 2,232 33,276
Newspapers 0 0 0 0 0
Magazines 120 43 5 5 173
Official newsletters 0 0 0 0 0
Reports 36 1 50 1 88
Annuals 23 0 0 0 23
Electronic resources (periodical publ.) 1 0 0 0 1
Periodical publications (sec. no.) 26,117 2,217 2,431 2,226 32,991
Graphic documents 989 274 358 415 2,036
Posters 465 153 268 270 1,156
Laminas 23 2 0 0 25
Maps and plans 160 19 22 29 230
Postcards 78 36 10 10 134
Greeting cards 142 0 1 1 144
Others 121 64 57 105 347
Audiovisual documents 1,919 120 90 89 2,218
Vinyl discs (LPs i altres) 134 7 33 33 207
Compact discs (CD) 1,126 81 43 43 1,293
DVD 426 23 8 8 465
Blue-Ray/HD 159 5 1 1 166
Films 49 0 0 0 49
Multimedia 24 0 4 4 32
Others 1 4 1 0 6
Total 55,132 4,476 3,904 3,716 67,228
Source: Biblioteca de Catalunya.

Last update: March 11, 2019.

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 "..".