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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 2011
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Monographs 29,832 975 1,190 1,190 33,187
Books (2) 22,801 632 488 392 24,313
Pamphlets <16 pages (3) 1,897 43 230 193 2,363
Pamphlets >16 pages (4) 1,618 113 182 232 2,145
Loose pages (5) 1,045 98 174 147 1,464
Cinema guides 45 0 5 0 50
Musical scores 538 2 0 0 540
Electronic resources (monographs) 1,562 84 97 202 1,945
CD-ROM 326 3 14 24 367
Periodical publications (no. 1) 745 102 26 45 918
Newspapers 2 0 0 1 3
Magazines 292 85 24 32 433
Official newsletters 0 0 0 0 0
Reports 208 14 0 9 231
Annuals 219 0 0 1 220
Electronic resources (periodical publ.) 24 3 2 2 31
Periodical publications (sec. no.) 28,225 5,885 3,740 2,303 40,153
Graphic documents 3,722 232 139 416 4,509
Posters 299 23 93 215 630
Laminas 715 2 3 2 722
Maps and plans 525 14 15 6 560
Postcards 1,680 54 0 134 1,868
Greeting cards 137 0 1 0 138
Others (6) 366 139 27 59 591
Sound, audiovisual and electronic docs 2,997 80 66 32 3,175
Vinyl discs 75 2 26 1 104
Compact discs (CD) 1,613 52 17 9 1,691
DVD 1,150 17 9 13 1,189
Videos 0 0 0 0 0
Blue-Ray/HD 156 0 0 0 156
Multimedia 3 0 6 5 14
Others 0 9 8 4 21
Total 65,521 7,274 5,162 3,986 81,943
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 "..".