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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 2014
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Text documents 22,339 1,376 1,309 980 26,004
Books 14,124 779 411 465 15,779
Coursebooks 1,227 0 0 0 1,227
Facsimile/collector's editions 13 0 0 0 13
Pamphlets <16 pages 1,105 138 240 186 1,669
Pamphlets >16 pages 559 146 148 186 1,039
Loose pages 938 225 417 97 1,677
Cinema guides 21 0 0 0 21
Musical scores 330 1 1 0 332
Electronic resources (monographs) 3,896 84 84 46 4,110
CD-ROM 100 3 8 0 111
Other formats 26 0 0 0 26
Periodical publications (no. 1) 17,541 3,531 3,063 2,047 26,182
Newspapers 0 1 1 0 2
Magazines 284 67 18 14 383
Official newsletters 0 0 0 1 1
Reports 54 4 5 5 68
Annuals 42 1 4 0 47
Electronic resources (periodical publ.) 36 15 1 17 69
Periodical publications (sec. no.) 17,125 3,443 3,034 2,010 25,612
Graphic documents 1,336 336 500 493 2,665
Posters 378 163 360 168 1,069
Laminas 42 4 41 26 113
Maps and plans 296 30 5 2 333
Postcards 340 53 3 139 535
Greeting cards 108 0 2 111 221
Others 172 86 89 47 394
Audiovisual documents 2,928 135 71 66 3,200
Vinyl discs (LPs i altres) 87 3 27 2 119
Compact discs (CD) 1,437 108 30 25 1,600
DVD 1,080 11 8 13 1,112
Vídeos 2 0 0 1 3
Blue-Ray/HD 246 0 0 0 246
Multimedia 6 0 3 4 13
Films 68 0 0 0 68
Others 2 13 3 21 39
Total 44,144 5,378 4,943 3,586 58,051
Source: Biblioteca de Catalunya.

Last update: February 13, 2015.

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 "..".