Prospector News

Bemis Public Library in Littleton is the newest member to Prospector. Bemis has about 196,000 items including books, CDs, DVDs, digital resources and other materials. They have materials in foreign languages including Spanish, Russian and Vietnamese, and a small number of books in Braille. Bemis serves a diverse population from infants, teenagers, immigrants and the visually impaired. We are thrilled with this latest addition to Prospector.

Encore search has been fully restored. Please let us know if you encounter any problems with searching Encore: help@coalliance.org

Prospector Team

We are experiencing issues with the search functionality in Encore. https://encore.coalliance.org/iii/encore/?lang=eng. Some searches yield no search results when they should. For consistent and accurate search results, please use Prospector Classic
https://prospector.coalliance.org/search~S0 . This option supports all types of search including advanced searches. Thanks for your patience while we resolve the problem with Encore.

Prospector Team

March 19, 2018

The Classic Prospector, https://prospector.coalliance.org/search~S0 catalog has been updated to better match the color palette of Prospector Encore. All of the same functionality still exists, you will just notice a more integrated experience flowing from the WebPac to Encore version of the catalog, particularly when requesting items. The changes which are all cosmetic include the following:

The Health Sciences Library (Anschutz Medical Campus) is once again available in Prospector. Card holders from this library can now request items through Prospector. The Health Sciences Library collection will be added back to Prospector and available to request over some time. The library was temporarily unavailable in Prospector while undergoing a system migration. That work is now done and we are pleased to have them rejoin Prospector.

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: 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: 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.