1. Prospector Annual Director’s Meeting
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November 15, 2018
Rose Nelson
Assistant Director
CO Alliance of Research Libraries

2. Prospector Director’s Meeting
Prospector Highlights
Upgrades
New Libraries and System Migrations
Impact Measures
Future Outlook

3. Map of Prospector

4. Local System Makeup

5. Migrations & New Libraries (2017-2018)

6. Quick Facts 48 92% 15 million 34 million 85% 498,000
Number of Libraries
Number of Coloradans with access to Prospector
Number of lends per year
Unique titles
Copies
2 & 4 year institutions with access to Prospector
92%
498,000
15 million
34 million
85%

7. Webpac Classic Before

8. WebPac Refresher

9. Encore

10. Top 10 Borrowers

11. Top 10 Lenders

12. Database size from

13. Prospector Fulfillments 2008-2018 YTD

14. Prospector Vs. Non Returnables ILL

15. Percentage of Lends vs. Record Contribution

16. Title Report Example

17. Lends to Mobius

18. Prospector Customer Survey

19. How often do you use Prospector?

20. What’s the nature of your use?

21. Did you find what you were looking for?

22. What do you value most about Prospector?
Availability of Resources
242
38%
Sharing among libraries
128
20%
Variety of Material 86
14%
Ease of Use 72
11%
Other 47 7%
Convenience 32 5%
Delivery 12 2%
Free 11

23. How can we improve Prospector?

24. Future Outlook API Development 3rd party vendors
Discussions with State Library about integration with SWIFT
Better discovery of E-Resources

25. Questions?