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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 2007
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Monographs 36,191 1,058 1,342 1,369 39,960
Books (2) 28,544 514 384 310 29,752
Pamphlets (3) 4,307 422 657 660 6,046
Loose pages (4) 2,497 84 277 236 3,094
Cinema guides 53 0 0 1 54
Musical scores 393 0 1 0 394
Electronic resources (monographs) 397 38 23 162 620
Periodical publications (no. 1) 884 107 48 63 1,102
Newspapers 4 0 0 0 4
Magazines 425 80 35 54 594
Official newsletters 0 0 0 1 1
Reports 245 6 11 7 269
Annuals 171 3 2 1 177
Electronic resources (periodical publ.) 39 18 0 0 57
Periodical publications (sec. no.) 15,620 8,697 4,631 3,368 32,316
Graphic documents 4,075 122 235 591 5,023
Posters 559 51 161 299 1,070
Laminas 1,283 3 23 16 1,325
Maps and plans 446 17 1 16 480
Postcards 1,387 15 31 167 1,600
Greeting cards 151 0 0 0 151
Others (5) 249 36 19 93 397
Sound, audiovisual and electronic docs 5,059 217 73 54 5,403
Vinyl discs 292 21 0 0 313
Compact discs (CD) 1,780 105 23 5 1,913
CD-ROM 537 5 11 29 582
Videos 19 0 0 0 19
DVD 2,373 84 39 12 2,508
Multimedia 58 2 0 8 68
Total 61,829 10,201 6,329 5,445 83,804
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: July 15, 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.

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 "..".