The document discusses the Publishers' Bindings Online (PBO) project, which digitized over 5,000 book bindings from the University of Alabama and University of Wisconsin-Madison collections. The PBO database provides images and metadata for the bindings and additional educational resources like essays and lesson plans. The project aims to promote collections, highlight the artistic and cultural significance of publishers' bindings, and serve a broad audience. Future opportunities for growth include contributions from other institutions and expanding research tools and educational materials.

1. THE ART OF BOOKS FROM THE REAL TO THE VIRTUAL: Jessica Lacher-Feldman Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections & Associate Professor The University of Alabama The Artistic, Cultural, and Historical Significance of American Decorated Publishers' Bindings

5. The PBO Project

11. Access : Bringing collections together in one virtual location

12. Outreach: Giving something to the world that is useful, fun, educational, cool, and beautiful!

14. The Process

17. Metadata: Example Record

18. Metadata: Dublin Core Record Subject terms

21. Earliest version of themes/”controlled vocabulary” form – we now have over 1800 terms

22. Description form

23. Developing a Controlled Vocabulary

28. PBO: The Database

30. “ Simple Search” Fully keyword searchable

31. Search Results: Brief view

32. Search results: Record View

33. Multi-Image View (1)

34. The Database: Multi-Image View (2)

35. The Database: Gallery View

36. Gallery view: side by side comparisons!

37. The Database: Email Records/Images; Export as XML Export or email records

38. The Database: Save Image Saving images is easy – Right-click enabled

39. The Database: Guided Search Typical advanced search interface – boolean operators

40. The Database: Full Descriptions

41. The Database: “Clickable” Subject Headings

43. Vashti manuscript

44. PBO: Value-added materials and components… Subject specialization!

46. Original website design

47. Current website design

48. Exhibits

49. Lectures, events, tie-ins

53. Artistic, Historical, & Literary Galleries

54. Galleries

57. From the gallery, view examples!

58. Value-Added Components: Aesthetics and Artistic Styles, Visual Literacy and Artistic Techniques

61. Through galleries , book titles are linked to full text when available/ appropriate via Project Gutenberg , Bartleby –allowing researcher to extend move from binding to electronic version of actual text .

67. Building on scholarship and bringing information together for users of all kinds

68. A growing resource that explores binding designers and links directly to our database. Comments and assistance welcome!

69. There are 2123 publishers included in PBO to date – this map takes users to a complete list of publishers by region! Publishers’ Map --huge potential for growth in scholarship – making sense of a lot of data!

70. Publishers Across the Land

71. Collaboration with Teaching Faculty: Expanding scholarship through bindings Indians, the Frontier, and the West in American Bookbindings

72. The PBO Project: University-level Teaching and Research College-level use of PBO in Art History and American Studies courses, etc.

76. One virtual location

80. Yes, it’s the PBO wiki!

83. Scholarly Impact Journal article on PBO as a model for…

84. PBO informational poster

85. PBO giveaway calendar