Interesting Facts About Prospector

  • Welcome to our new look
  • We have incorporated facets for limiting results, book jackets and other design elements
  • If you prefer our classic interface it is still available
  • Prospector has over 10 million unique titles and 30 million copies

Prospector News

missing items in prospector

January 19th, 2012 3:37pm

Some items are currently missing from the Prospector catalog.  These items where originally loaded into the database, but aren’t displaying in Prospector.  Our vendor  is aware of the issue and is in the process of fixing it.  If you find an item in a local catalog that should be in Prospector, please contact the circulation...

prospector hardware upgrades successful, thursday, january 12

January 11th, 2012 2:36pm

On Thursday, January 12th the Prospector servers had additional disk drives added to accommodate the addition of new libraries as well as future software upgrades.  The installation was successful and all services are fully restored.  We apologize for the intermittent outages on January 12th but all is now back to normal. George Machovec help@coalliance.org

prospector holiday schedule

December 15th, 2011 3:32pm

Over the next few weeks some of the libraries in Prospector will be closed for the holiday and items from the sites will not be available for lending through Prospector.  Here is a list of those libraries and dates that items will not be available for request. Colorado College-December 16-January 8th; Colorado State University-Fort Collins...

what about textbooks in prospector?

August 25th, 2011 8:46am

At the beginning of any academic semester students are rushing to get textbooks. Historically, most academic libraries do not collect text books per se, however, some may be found in Prospector. In addition, many classes have books which are required for class which may not be classified as textbooks but are required reading. Many of...