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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 2010
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Monographs 34,640 1,038 1,362 1,401 38,441
Books (2) 26,624 660 502 385 28,171
Pamphlets <16 pages (3) 2,233 40 305 252 2,830
Pamphlets >16 pages (4) 1,863 184 221 280 2,548
Loose pages (5) 1,670 79 212 206 2,167
Cinema guides 61 0 0 0 61
Musical scores 470 3 0 2 475
Electronic resources (monographs) 1,244 54 109 264 1,671
CD-ROM 475 18 13 12 518
Periodical publications (no. 1) 812 129 48 50 1,039
Newspapers 3 0 3 1 7
Magazines 330 117 37 39 523
Official newsletters 0 0 0 0 0
Reports 229 12 1 4 246
Annuals 241 0 5 1 247
Electronic resources (periodical publ.) 9 0 2 5 16
Periodical publications (sec. no.) 21,970 6,812 3,911 3,940 36,633
Graphic documents 4,416 272 242 475 5,405
Posters 647 31 162 299 1,139
Laminas 932 5 4 2 943
Maps and plans 600 14 42 12 668
Postcards 1,522 12 0 88 1,622
Greeting cards 273 0 1 0 274
Others (6) 442 210 33 74 759
Sound, audiovisual and electronic docs 4,064 137 44 45 4,290
Vinyl discs 54 7 9 0 70
Compact discs (CD) 1,505 96 22 6 1,629
DVD 2,183 14 5 28 2,230
Videos 112 0 0 0 112
Blue-Ray/HD 173 1 0 0 174
Multimedia 31 0 8 9 48
Others 6 19 0 2 27
Total 65,902 8,388 5,607 5,911 85,808
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 16 page documents.
(4) 17 to 48 page documents.
(5) Printed documents with 1 to 4 pages. Laminas, prayer sheets and auca (cartoon strips), for example, are not considered loose sheets.
(6) Sticker albums, stickers, trading cards, printed games, playing cards, etc.

Last update: March 13, 2012.

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 "..".