english - Biblioteca de Catalunya
english - Biblioteca de Catalunya
english - Biblioteca de Catalunya
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The collections:the wealth and amplitu<strong>de</strong> of the bibliographic resourceThe collection of the <strong>Biblioteca</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Catalunya</strong> is rich and has a great bibliographicand documentary value. It is ma<strong>de</strong> up of nearly three milliondocuments in various formats: books, magazines, newspapers, manuscripts,etchings, maps, scores, sound and audiovisual recordings, CD-rom, etc.Since 1981 it has brought together the printed and recor<strong>de</strong>d material comingfrom the legal <strong>de</strong>posit of Catalonia. Since its foundation, documents, collectionsand libraries have been acquired from diverse sources and origins.The donations ma<strong>de</strong> by many private citizens and many institutions havecontributed, over many years, to strengthening the historical and bibliographicalvalue of the centre.