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ProspectorColorado

Horizon Users Group

George MachovecAssociate Director

Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries

April 21, 2006

[email protected]

http://prospector.coalliance.org


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Original Project Goals

To create a regional union (global) catalog

for many of the major academic and public

libraries in Colorado & Wyoming To allow patrons to easily request items

from other participating libraries and have

them delivered to a nearby local library


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Prospector Operations

Operated out of offices for Colorado

Alliance of Research Libraries by

consortium staff Prospector Committees

Prospector Directors annual meeting

Prospector Cataloging Reference Committee

Prospector Document Delivery Committee (circ)


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Participating Libraries

Academic/Special CU/Boulder (III)

CU/Health Sci (III)

CU/Colo Springs (III) Auraria Library (III)

CU/Law Library (III)

CSU (III)

UNC (III) DU/Penrose (III)

Mesa State College (III)

DU/Law (III)

Colorado College (III)

Fort Lewis (III)

Regis Univ (III)

CSM (Voyager)

U of Wyo (Voyager)

Colorado StatePublications (III)

Center for ResearchLibraries (III)


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Participating Libraries - Public

DPL (CARL)

Jefferson County

Public Library (III) Arapahoe Library

District (III)

Aurora Public Library(III)

Boulder Public

Library (III)

Broomfield PublicLibrary (III)

Louisville Public

Library (III)

Fort Collins Public

Library (III)


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How is Prospector Built?

Uses INN-Reach Union Catalog software

from Innovative Interfaces Inc.

Real-time updating of records from localsystems

Generic record concept


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Prospector Database Size

(in Millions)

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10

15

20

25

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Unique Bibs

Items


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Database Size (April 2006)

Current Database 6.7 million MARC records

Over 21 million item records

65.31% of records held by 1 library

12.77% of records held by 2 libraries

6.67% of records held by 3 libraries

5.13% of records held by 4 libraries 3.61% of records held by 5 libraries

6.52% of records held by 6+ libraries


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INN-REACHServer

LocalSystem

LocalSystem

LocalSystem

LocalSystem

LocalSystem

LocalSystem

Environment


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Record Types in Prospector

Bibliographic records

Item records

including circulation status codes

Summary serial holdings records

Order records


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How are Bib Records Added?

First match point is OCLC number.

Secondary match point is ISBN or ISSN

combined with title key match

If a match occurs the encoding level is

checked (highest prevails)

If match occurs and encoding levels are

equal then the precedence table is checked


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Prospector Access

Prospector Staff Website:

http://www.coalliance.org/prospector

Prospector System:http://prospector.coalliance.org

Prospector Borrowing/Lending Statistics

http://prospector.coalliance.org:4444/olinkpatrep/report2/0//?


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Unique Features

Multi-state (Colorado/Wyoming)

Multi-library type (academic, public,

special)

Multi-system (III/CARL/Voyager)


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Document Ordering

User is prompted for affiliation, name and

library card number

System checks with local OPAC to ensuretheir good standing

User selects pick-up location (options

predefined by each library) The system does load balancing to determine

who gets the request (users do not select)


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Lending/Borrowing

INN-ReachCatalogServer

LocalSystem

LocalSystem

LocalSystem

LocalSystem

Patron Request

Item Circulated

Patron Verified

Request Filled

Item Request

Item Sent

Record

Contribution


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Document Ordering Features

Libraries have local control over what items

can be delivered

Libraries have local control over which of yourpatrons can borrow

If local copy is checked-out or missing it may

be requested through Prospector System is sensitive to multi-volume sets so

particular volumes may be selected


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Primary Circulation Policy

21 day loan period

1 renewal

Holds permitted but no recalls

40 requests/check-outs per person

Delivery via existing courier

Overdue fines and lost book fees are set by

each local library


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Additional Circulation Policies

Media. 1 week, no renewals. To support sites

who want to delivery videos, CDs and otherspecial media. 1 week, no renewals.

PASCAL Journals. 1 week, no renewals.


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Use Statistics (Last 12

Months) Over 333,000 volumes were actually

delivered

86.3% fulfillment rate

Most common reason for non-fulfillment is

that the item was not on the shelf

Turnaround 3-4 days as most libraries pull

& ship daily.


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Prospector Lends

0

50000

100000

150000

200000

250000

300000

350000

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Deliveries


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Volumes delivered

1999 9,794 (8 libraries for 5 months)

2000 39,754 (12 libraries)

2001 71,510 (14 libraries)

2002 100,000 (14 libraries)

2003 129,712 (17 libraries)

2004 272,768 (21 libraries)

2005 333,300 (21 libraries)


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Prospector/Swift/OCLC

ReturnablesSource: Colorado State Library

0

20000

40000

60000

80000

100000

120000

140000

Q3/Q4 2003 Q1/Q2 2004

OCLC

SWIFT

Prospector


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Top Lenders in Prospector

(by Volume)

October 2004-2005

0

10000

20000

30000

40000

50000

60000

JCPL ALD Aurora DPL FCPL CSU CUB

Lent


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Top Borrowers in Prospector

(by Volume)

October 2004-2005

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10000

20000

30000

40000

50000

60000

70000

80000

JCPL FCPL ALD DPL Aurora CUB CSU

Borrowers


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New Libraries added in 2006

Colorado State Publications January 2006

University of Wyoming April 2006


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Adding non-III Libraries

Direct programming to a proprietary API

published by III Difficult and expensive to do

We did it for DPL (CARL), CSM (Endeavor)

and the Univ of Wyoming (Endeavor)


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Adding non-III Libraries

Direct Consortial Borrowing (DCB)

Solution being developed by III

Allows INN-Reach systems to add non-Innovative systems

Will be released in fall 2006

Being beta tested in Michigan where over 100non-III libraries have been added in a statewide

system (including Horizon libraries)


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It is an intermediate server that sits between

your Horizon system and Prospector

It batch harvests bibs, items, circ transactionsand patron data (at least once per day)

It maps this data into an INN-Reach

understandable format and feeds it directly intoProspector


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One DCB server can support multiple

libraries on different systems

Michigan supports >100 libraries on a singleserver

III costs yet to be determined but based on

library size and number of branches


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Costs for Joining Prospector

DCB costs from III yet to be announced

Annual membership fee (varies year-to-

year) but in the $8K-9K range

One-time Prospector membership fee to

help offset some of the embedded costs

already expended


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Some Prospector advantages

Up and running for over 7 years

Professional managed by Colorado Alliance

Single physical union catalog. You always searchall libraries in one search

Super easy and fast for your patrons

You get access to all of the lendable items from

the major public and academic libraries evenprivate schools like Regis, Colorado College andDU!


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Some Prospector advantages

Article delivery integration with your link

resolver (e.g. Gold Rush or other brand)

High fulfillment

Fast fulfillment

Uses existing courier


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Huge Success!

Prospector is a huge success with both patrons and

library staff!

It is playing an important role in deliveringmaterials in a time of declining budgets

It leverages and promotes inter-institutional

cooperation

It is being used as a tool for shared collection

development and other related projects

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