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The BC in figures

Descriptive data

Budget (2022)

10.371.110 €

Estimated area Hospital street headquarters

12.000 m2

Estimated area Villarroel service building

3.000 m2

Linear meters of shelving

64.400 m

Seats (reading points)

165

Collection volume (documents)

4.541.246

Preserved digital collection volume

 98,7 TB

 

2019

2020

2021

Users with card

299.552

302.060

303.283

Staff

152

152

153

Impact and visibility

 

2019

2020

2021

Advising institutions

1.370

1.525*

1.169

Origin of digital collection's remote users

Catalonia

38,74%

Spain

17,12%

Europe

16,23%

Rest of the world

8,76%

Non set

19,15%

Origin of catalogue's remote users

Catalonia

53,45%

Spain

18,11%

Europe

6,03%

Rest of the world

6,21%

Non set

16,20%

* Data under review.

Indicators

 

2019

2020

2021

User satisfaction

9,0

**

**

Compliance of chart of services' commitments

95,3%

98,5%

96,3%

Users onsite, web, and social networks

2.546.183

3.186.036

3.656.799

Catalogue queries 

2.438.711

2.255.656

1.662.263

Face-to-face and virtual visits to the activities, live

13.984

2.571

5.060

Virtual visits to the activities, deferred

 

2.018

3.201

Activities (visits, acts, exhibitions and Open Day) 

398

138

206

Documents supplied/consulted (originals and reproductions) 

2.363.221

2.974.312

3.817.599

BC documents consulted on Google Books

7.274.673

8.800.866

7.343.386

Material delivered electronically

31,91%

12,91%

16,90%

Exhibitions loans (ehxibitions/pieces)

17/99

9/104

17/79

Documents acquired (purchase, donation, Legal Deposit, and exchange)

158.970

80.246

161.230

Processed documents (news, duplicates, rejected)

139.079

88.414

115.683

Digital images created

54.121

380.600

68.417

Legal Diposit numbers assigned

34.871

26.239

24.648

ISSN numbers assigned

595

313

356

CANTIC records created (by BC)

20.142

18.874

16.291

CANTIC records created (total)

23.734

23.889

19.919

CIP records created

132

105

122

Opening days per year

291

202

272

Average sick leave per staff member

19

16

17,26

* In 2020 and 2021, no user assessment survey was conducted.

Projects and portals

ARCA

Patrimoni d'Editors i Editats

CANTIC

Premsa Catalana Digitalitzada

EUROPEANA

RACO

Fem Memòria

Transcriu-me!!

Google Llibres

VIAF

MDC

WDL

PADICAT