1. Prospector: Back to the Basics
Catalog Reference Meeting 2/15/2018
Rose Nelson Assistant Director-CO Alliance Prospector Coordinator

2. 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

3. 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

4. How is Prospector Constructed?

5. 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

6. Original Prospector Catalog
Local ILS
INN-Reach Server
Local ILS
Local ILS

7. 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

8. Record Updates
Local ILS
Local ILS

9. Record Updates over last 24 hours
Displays records sent, modified and deleted from the local servers
Local ILS
Local ILS

10. Record Loading to Central
Local ILS
Local ILS

11. Record Loading to Central
Local ILS
Local ILS

12. Prospector Staff Website
Prospector contact list
Listserv
Best Practices

13. Prospector Reports
Bib & Item Quarterly Stats
Title Reports (Collection Development)
Fulfillment Reports

14. 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

15. Thank You!
Questions?