Prospector News

MOBIUS is moving to a new system for their catalog which isn't compatible with the Prospector. All borrowing and lending between the two systems will cease on January 12, 2024. After this time, the link to MOBIUS will be removed from the Prospector catalog. After January 12th, if you aren't able to find an item in Prospector, you will need to contact your local library and order it through traditional interlibrary loan outside of Prospector. You can still request items from MOBIUS and have them for the full loan period until January 12th.

• CU-Boulder Libraries are switching to a new library catalog and are unavailable for the first 2 quarters of 2024. CU Boulder card holders should contact the ILL Department to request items.
  Learn more: https://www.colorado.edu/libraries/library-services-platform-migration

Prospector requesting is currently down. Our vendor is aware of the issue and looking into it now. We apologize for the inconvenience and will let you know when requesting has been fully restored.

Thanks,

Prospector Staff

Access to Prospector and all Alliance services will be interrupted over the July 4th weekend (July 2 – July 4) as we make some necessary updates to our network. This will start about 9am (Mountain time) on Saturday morning (July 2nd).

Thank you for your patience through this. If you encounter any connectivity issues after July 4, please contact our Help Desk (help@coalliance.org)

Douglas County Libraries are experiencing some network difficulties and are currently unavailable for lending and borrowing materials through Prospector. We don't have an estimated time frame on when these issues will be resolved. In the meantime, Douglas County patrons can contact their local library to request items through traditional interlibrary loan.

Access to Prospector and ALL Alliance services will be unavailable from 8:00pm on Friday December 17, 2021 until 10:00am on
Saturday December 18, 2021.

Our datacenter will be doing maintenance that requires our servers and devices to be shut down during this time.

Thanks -
Alliance Staff

The Prospector system has expanded its program for lending streaming videos. In the past, patrons could only borrow videos if they were in a physical format (such as DVDs which are still available) but arrangements have been made with various distributors to lend streaming videos through our SILLVR program (Streaming InterLibrary Loan for Video Resources)

The Flatirons Consortium (FLC) is unavailable in Prospector through 2021. Their items have been mapped to a non-requestable status, "local use only". And each library has been removed from the Prospector Request form. The FLC includes--Broomfield, Boulder, Lafayette, Longmont, Louisville and Loveland public libraries.

This week five additional libraries joined Prospector through the Marmot Library Network. These include Buena Vista Public Library, Lake County Library, Montrose Regional Library District, Pine River Public Library and Rampart Library District. We are excited to add these five new libraries to the Prospector catalog.

We are pleased to announce that Clearview Library District has joined Prospector. The Clearview Library District located in Windsor, CO serves more than 25,000 residents of West Greeley, Severance and the town of Windsor. The library lends a variety of materials including books, magazines, movies, music and more. They also provide programs and events at the library including STEAM education for grade school kids, an inclusive space for teens and continuing education for adults.