During the year, the Copyright Office received 600,535 new claims to copyright, which covered more than 1 million works. It registered 531,720 claims. The office received more than 20,000 full electronic claims for textual works and music. The office recorded 11,874 documents covering more than 350,000 titles. The copyright public record, available for searching online, grew with the cataloging of 643,735 registrations and the indexing of thousands of parties and titles of works contained in documents recorded. The office also continued major initiatives to reengineer its core business processes and use information technology to increase the efficiency of operations and the timeliness of public services.
The Americana collections of the Library of Congress have been created largely through the copyright system. The Copyright Office annually transfers to the Library about 1 million deposit copies in all formats. In 2005 the Copyright Office forwarded 1,098,420 copies of works with a net worth of $39,649,813 to the Library of Congress, including 562,588 items that were received from publishers under the mandatory deposit provisions of the copyright law.
