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Publishing production. Legal deposit in Catalonia. By type of document. Provinces

Publishing production. Legal deposit in Catalonia (1). By type of document. Provinces 2004
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalunya
Monografies 27,427 859 1,049 1,111 30,446
Llibres (2) 22,114 476 407 389 23,386
Fullets (3) 3,649 298 440 519 4,906
Fulls solts (4) 1,316 85 182 203 1,786
Guions de cinema 70 0 0 0 70
Microformes 0 0 0 0 0
Partitures musicals 278 0 20 0 298
Publicacions periòdiques (núm. 1) 812 102 71 63 1,048
Diaris 0 3 0 0 3
Revistes 426 85 55 60 626
Butlletins oficials 0 1 0 0 1
Memòries 179 9 13 3 204
Anuaris 207 4 3 0 214
Publicacions periòdiques (núm. seg.) 26,627 3,118 4,752 2,575 37,072
Documents gràfics 4,731 122 157 557 5,567
Cartells 435 33 106 316 890
Làmines 1,166 6 34 15 1,221
Mapes i plànols 439 24 0 8 471
Postals 2,321 34 9 149 2,513
Targetes i nadales 309 0 0 1 310
Altres (5) 61 25 8 68 162
Doc. sonors, audiovisuals i electrònics 6,259 184 62 80 6,585
Cassets 51 1 0 1 53
Disc vinil 618 1 0 0 619
Disc CD 2,430 85 40 0 2,555
CD-ROM 385 8 12 64 469
Disquets 42 0 0 0 42
Vídeos 650 6 4 0 660
Documents electrònics 798 66 2 15 881
DVD 1,274 17 4 0 1,295
Multimèdia 11 0 0 0 11
Total 65,856 4,385 6,091 4,386 80,718
Source: Biblioteca de Catalunya.
Notes:
(1) The statistics reflect all documents presented to the Legal Deposit offices over the year, regardless of the year of the legal deposit and therefore the year of publication.
(2) Includes offprints of magazines (not magazine or newspaper supplements), revisions of pre-existing monographs and the first issue of collector's series.
(3) 5 to 48 page documents.
(4) Printed documents with 1 to 4 pages. Laminas, prayer sheets and auca (cartoon strips), for example, are not considered loose sheets.
(5) Sticker albums, stickers, trading cards, printed games, playing cards, etc.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

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 "..".