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

former missing prospector records restored

February 23rd, 2012 9:21am

As of February 22nd Prospector has been refreshed with new records from every participating library.  The formerly announced missing records from the system have now been restored so that it is an accurate reflection of what is available from each library. The Prospector Team

prospector upgrade monday night (february 20th)

February 16th, 2012 9:35am

The Prospector system will be doing an upgrade of its underlying operating system on Monday, February 20th.  The system will have short outages after 9pm while the servers are rebooting.  As always we apologize for the inconvenience.  If the system is unresponsive on Monday night please try again in a few minutes. The Prospector team...

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