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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 2023
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Text documents 18,304 1,526 719 711 21,260
Books 15,348 1,187 388 441 17,364
Coursebooks 1,241 0 0 0 1,241
Facsimile/collector's editions 12 0 0 0 12
Pamphlets 1,155 201 120 215 1,691
Loose pages 440 135 211 54 840
Cinema guides 0 0 0 0 0
Musical scores 108 3 0 1 112
CD-ROM 0 0 0 0 0
Other formats 0 0 0 0 0
Periodical publications (no. 1) 11,556 2,548 2,265 1,460 17,829
Newspapers 7 0 0 0 7
Magazines 114 8 2 4 128
Official newsletters 2 0 0 0 2
Reports 24 0 1 0 25
Annuals 18 0 0 0 18
Periodical publications (sec. no.) 11,391 2,540 2,262 1,456 17,649
Graphic documents 510 275 132 125 1,042
Posters 316 165 122 92 695
Laminas 2 1 0 0 3
Maps and plans 80 6 4 10 100
Postcards 4 0 0 1 5
Greeting cards 42 2 2 5 51
Others 66 101 4 17 188
Audiovisual documents 1,230 50 76 8 1,364
Vinyl discs (LPs i altres) 221 18 63 2 304
Compact discs (CD) 753 30 13 3 799
DVD 97 0 0 2 99
Blue-Ray/HD 142 0 0 0 142
Films 0 0 0 0 0
Multimedia 0 0 0 0 0
Others 17 2 0 1 20
Total 31,600 4,399 3,192 2,304 41,495
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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