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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 Catalonia
Text documents Books Coursebooks Facsimile/collector's editions Pamphlets Loose pages Cinema guides Musical scores CD-ROM Other formats Periodical publications (no. 1) Newspapers Magazines Official newsletters Reports Annuals Periodical publications (sec. no.) Graphic documents Posters Laminas Maps and plans Postcards Greeting cards Others Audiovisual documents Vinyl discs (LPs i altres) Compact discs (CD) DVD Blue-Ray/HD Films Multimedia Others Total
2023 21,260 17,364 1,241 12 1,691 840 0 112 0 0 17,829 7 128 2 25 18 17,649 1,042 695 3 100 5 51 188 1,364 304 799 99 142 0 0 20 41,495
2022 20,757 16,944 1,276 5 1,705 547 0 181 32 67 20,612 6 169 0 23 14 20,400 965 549 16 116 66 10 208 1,475 186 971 110 122 76 0 10 43,809
2021 23,177 18,236 573 20 1,794 537 0 1,837 53 127 27,716 3 220 0 30 15 27,448 1,084 642 14 180 29 22 197 1,618 264 925 139 194 87 1 8 53,595
Source: Biblioteca de Catalunya.

Last update: April 5, 2024.

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 "..".

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