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Prospector upgrade Monday night (February 20th)
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
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
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
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?
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 [...]
Prospector now provides a portal to thousands of additional resources through WorldCat
You’ve searched Prospector and still can’t find what you are looking for? Don’t despair. Prospector now provides a bridge to WorldCat, the world’s largest network of library resources that includes items from libraries in your local community as well as those around the world. You will find popular books, CDs, DVDs, scholarly works and other [...]
Summit County Library Joins Prospector
On August 2, 2011 Summit County Libraries went live in the Prospector system. This means that public library patrons from Frisco, Silverthorne and Breckenridge may now borrow materials through the union catalog. The Summit County Library acquires, organizes and provides access to information/media for the residents and visitors of Summit County to inform, enrich and [...]
Prospector Mobile
Prospector has a new mobile Web service (http://bridge.coalliance.org ) which supports the growing use of smartphones and other handheld computing devices. The interface is not a product-specific app but rather a mobile friendly Web interface so that it is universally accessible to any small screen device. Although functionality on the mobile interface is not as [...]
University of Denver Penrose reactivated in Prospector
The University of Denver Penrose Library has finished moving its library collection to off-campus storage for library renovation. The library has been reactivated for lending materials in Prospector. When DU patrons borrow Prospector materials they may be picked-up at the Driscoll Ballroom, the library’s interim location on campus. As details for accessing collections and services [...]
Google Preview in Prospector
The new Prospector interface (http://www.coalliance.org/prospector) has added a Google Preview link for books. This link appears at the full record for a book and will lead the reader to a preview of the book being offered by Google Editions. You will be able to read portions of the book in a book reader and it [...]
