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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 2015
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Text documents 23,187 1,410 1,152 1,543 27,292
Books 14,833 874 440 428 16,575
Coursebooks 1,721 0 0 26 1,747
Facsimile/collector's editions 20 0 0 1 21
Pamphlets <16 pages 1,309 116 198 176 1,799
Pamphlets >16 pages 620 100 137 167 1,024
Loose pages 837 208 288 111 1,444
Cinema guides 10 0 1 0 11
Musical scores 181 1 0 0 182
Electronic resources (monographs) 3,563 102 87 620 4,372
CD-ROM 70 9 1 11 91
Other formats 23 0 0 3 26
Periodical publications (no. 1) 20,401 3,275 3,416 1,606 28,698
Newspapers 3 4 0 0 7
Magazines 167 49 21 14 251
Official newsletters 0 0 0 0 0
Reports 77 0 2 3 82
Annuals 47 0 1 1 49
Electronic resources (periodical publ.) 78 0 1 3 82
Periodical publications (sec. no.) 20,029 3,222 3,391 1,585 28,227
Graphic documents 1,034 363 371 386 2,154
Posters 39 124 317 214 694
Laminas 243 1 21 5 270
Maps and plans 91 27 6 14 138
Postcards 134 8 7 134 283
Greeting cards 25 0 1 1 27
Others 125 203 19 18 365
Audiovisual documents 2,709 133 128 32 3,002
Vinyl discs (LPs i altres) 87 2 57 2 148
Compact discs (CD) 1,309 107 51 12 1,479
DVD 880 17 8 4 909
Blue-Ray/HD 383 0 0 0 383
Multimedia 0 0 8 6 14
Films 43 0 0 0 43
Others 7 7 4 8 26
Total 47,331 5,181 5,067 3,567 61,146
Source: Biblioteca de Catalunya.

Last update: February 11, 2016.

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 "..".