Prospector will be unavailable to Denver Public Library card holders and their items won't be requestable through Prospector January 20- 21 for a software update. We apologize for the temporary inconvenience. For more information see:
https://www.denverlibrary.org/catalog-service-interruption

Prospector Team

The High Plains Library District formerly named Weld Library District was established in 1986 to improve library services to local residents by sharing materials, staff and tax revenue. The district which spans 4,000 square miles includes all of Weld County except for areas covered by the Windsor-Severance Library District and the City of Dacono. . High Plains serves over 245,000 residents in Weld and surrounding counties and is comprised of seven branch libraries, a book mobile and six autonomous member libraries each with their own board of trustees.

Published August 28, 2017

We are pleased to announce that all library card holders from Colorado State University Fort Collins and Pueblo can once again borrow items through Prospector. CSU was out of Prospector for the last several months as they changed their local library catalog software and had to be reconfigured to work with Prospector. This work has been done and CSU patrons have started to borrow items through Prospector. Over the next few weeks, CSU materials will be added back to Prospector and requestable to other library card holders.

Published: July 10, 2017

The Douglas County Library system is the newest library to join Prospector. Douglas County Library was established in 1966 by the Douglas County Board of Commissioners who appropriated $5,000 for library operations. The following year, philanthropist Philip S. Miller and his wife, Jerri donated an additional $25,000 for library construction and the library opened in August of 1967. In 1990 voters passed the Douglas County Public Library District, which created an independent taxing district to fund library operations.

Published: April 25, 2017

Anythink, the public library district serving Adams county has joined Prospector. With a service population of over 368,000 people, Anythink includes 7 physical locations and a book mobile and provides it’s community with high demand cutting edge materials, programming and media.

Published: March 28, 2017

Requesting through the Encore version of Prospector is currently unavailable. Please use the Classic version of Prospector while our vendor resolves the issue of requesting through Encore. You can access the Classic Catalog here: http://prospector.coalliance.org/search*eng

Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve this issue.

Published: January 20, 2017

On January 17, 2017 The Lafayette Public Library joined Prospector through the Flatirons Consortium, a consortium of libraries in the northern front range. Lafayette was originally founded in 1888 by Mary Miller. She and her husband Lafayette Miller moved to Lafayette to farm land. Coal was eventually discovered on this land and Mary designated a portion of this land to the town which she named Lafayette after her husband. Lafayette quickly became part of the coal mining boom and by 1914 it had two banks, four hotels and brick works.

Published: January 3, 2017

At about 3:45pm on January 3rd, The Encore (newer) version of Prospector(http://encore.coalliance.org/) will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance. During this time, you can search Prospector and place requests through the Classic interface: http://prospector.coalliance.org/search~S0.

Published: November 30, 2016

Prospector is once again available to Denver Public Library customers. Requests will immediately display in the Denver Public Library customer’s account in “Active” status. The status will change to “Shipped” when the item is on its way to Denver Public Library and to “Received” when the item is ready for pick up. Over the next few weeks, DPL items will be loaded into Prospector and available for other library patrons to borrow.

Published - October 25, 2016

Colorado State University-Fort Collins and Pueblo libraries will be unavailable for lending and borrowing in Prospector starting November 1, 2016 while they undergo a library system migration.

Card holders for these 2 libraries may consider getting a library card from a public library in Prospector (http://prospectorhome.coalliance.org/prospectornews/about) and using traditional Interlibrary Loan while CSU completes the migration.