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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 2019
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia
Text documents 24,431 1,474 913 1,007 27,825
Books 15,728 980 374 579 17,661
Coursebooks 1,284 3 2 0 1,289
Facsimile/collector's editions 18 0 1 0 19
Pamphlets <16 pages 1,293 155 129 130 1,707
Pamphlets >16 pages 823 107 137 164 1,231
Loose pages 1,034 201 270 97 1,602
Cinema guides 0 0 0 0 0
Musical scores 4,121 28 0 0 4,149
Electronic resources (monographs) 0 0 0 30 30
CD-ROM 99 0 0 2 101
Documents carregats a COFRE 4 0 0 5 9
Other formats 27 0 0 0 27
Periodical publications (no. 1) 23,980 1,724 2,535 2,118 30,357
Newspapers 0 0 0 0 0
Magazines 150 52 9 13 224
Official newsletters 0 0 0 0 0
Reports 19 1 5 1 26
Annuals 20 0 0 0 20
Electronic resources (periodical publ.) 5 0 0 0 5
Periodical publications (sec. no.) 23,786 1,671 2,521 2,104 30,082
Graphic documents 889 178 381 261 1,709
Posters 406 103 261 215 985
Laminas 15 0 0 0 15
Maps and plans 157 11 12 9 189
Postcards 55 1 13 12 81
Greeting cards 108 0 0 0 108
Others 148 63 95 25 331
Audiovisual documents 1,518 65 74 17 1,674
Vinyl discs (LPs i altres) 146 5 46 3 200
Compact discs (CD) 891 50 18 14 973
DVD 252 9 7 0 268
Blue-Ray/HD 153 1 0 0 154
Films 75 0 1 0 76
Multimedia 0 0 1 0 1
Others 1 0 1 0 2
Total 50,818 3,441 3,903 3,403 61,565
Source: Biblioteca de Catalunya.

Last update: March 10, 2020.

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 "..".