Prospector: Back to the Basics Catalog Reference Meeting 2/15/2018 Rose Nelson Assistant Director-CO Alliance Prospector Coordinator
Original Prospector Members (1999) Auraria Library Colorado College Colorado State University CU Boulder Fort Lewis College Jefferson County Public UC Boulder Law Library UCCS Univ. of Denver Univ. of Denver Law Library UC Health Sciences Library Univ. of Northern CO
Prospector Members (2018) Adams State University CSU-Pueblo Pitkin County Library Anythink Libraries CU Boulder Poudre River Public Library Arapahoe Library District Denver Public Library Regis University Auraria Library Douglas County Libraries Salida Regional Library Aurora Public Library Eagle Valley Library District Summit County Libraries Basalt Regional Library Fort Lewis College UC Boulder Law Library Boulder Public Library Garfield County Public UCCS Broomfield Public Library Grand County Library UC Health Sciences Library Bud Werner Library Gunnison County Library Univ. of Denver Colorado Christian Univ. High Plains Regional Library Univ. of Denver Law Library Colorado College Jefferson County Public Univ. of Northern CO Colorado Mesa University Lafayette Public Library Univ. of Wyoming Colorado Mountain College Longmont Public Library Vail Public Library Colorado School of Mines Louisville Public Library Western State College Colorado State Publications Loveland Public Library Wilkerson Public Library CSU-Fort Collins Mesa County Public Library
How is Prospector Constructed?
How it works Records are loaded from local system or shared DCB into Prospector Circulation transactions and patron data are not loaded into Prospector Real time updates-Millennium, Sierra, Polaris 24 hour delay for Non-III libraries
Original Prospector Catalog Local ILS INN-Reach Server Local ILS Local ILS
Today’s Prospector Catalog Peer INN-Reach Transfer search IR to IR Local ILS Sirsi Dynix INN-Reach Server Local ILS Shared DCB FTP ALMA Shared ILS API Direct Polaris
Record Updates Local ILS Local ILS
Record Updates over last 24 hours Displays records sent, modified and deleted from the local servers Local ILS Local ILS
Record Loading to Central Local ILS Local ILS
Record Loading to Central Local ILS Local ILS
Prospector Staff Website https://www.coalliance.org/catalog-reference-committee Prospector contact list Listserv Best Practices
Prospector Reports https://www.coalliance.org/software/prospector/statistics Bib & Item Quarterly Stats Title Reports (Collection Development) Fulfillment Reports
Differences between Encore and WebPac WebPac more search indexes-Librarian’s catalog Pubmed, ERIC, Govt. Docs, OCLC Search actual index as opposed to keyword search in Encore Encore-Keyword search; no phrase indexes
Thank You! Questions?