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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 2013
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Monographs 22,900 1,357 1,148 812 26,217
Books 16,348 755 308 402 17,813
Pamphlets <16 pages 840 80 200 125 1,245
Pamphlets >16 pages 470 154 143 98 865
Loose pages 745 202 377 115 1,439
Cinema guides 27 0 0 1 28
Musical scores 142 3 2 0 147
Electronic resources (monographs) 4,092 159 109 70 4,430
CD-ROM 236 4 9 1 250
Periodical publications (no. 1) 470 98 44 23 635
Newspapers 18 0 0 0 18
Magazines 215 87 29 18 349
OOfficial newsletters 0 0 0 0 0
Reports 78 7 5 4 94
Annuals 55 0 1 0 56
Electronic resources (periodical publ.) 104 4 9 1 118
Periodical publications (sec. no.) 18,500 4,362 3,307 2,063 28,232
Graphic documents 1,957 293 364 284 2,898
Posters 333 181 298 161 973
Laminas 149 0 21 1 171
Maps and plans 617 20 0 7 644
Postcards 525 37 1 83 646
Greeting cards 205 13 1 0 219
Others 128 42 43 32 245
Sound, audiovisual and electronic docs 3,151 157 79 37 3,424
Vinyl discs 67 14 33 2 116
Compact discs (CD) 1,263 98 29 9 1,399
DVD 1,368 19 7 20 1,414
Vídeos 5 0 0 0 5
Blue-Ray/HD 389 0 0 1 390
Multimedia 0 0 7 4 11
Films 58 2 1 0 61
Others 1 24 2 1 61
Total 46,978 6,267 4,942 3,219 61,406
Source: Biblioteca de Catalunya.

Last update: March 3, 2014.

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 "..".