Prospector

Colorado Horizon Users Group

George Machovec Associate Director Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries April 21, 2006 george@coalliance.org

http://prospector.coalliance.org

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

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)

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 State Publications (III) Center for Research Libraries (III)

Participating Libraries - Public

DPL (CARL) Jefferson County Public Library (III) Arapahoe Library District (III) Aurora Public Library (III) Boulder Public Library (III) Broomfield Public Library (III) Louisville Public Library (III) Fort Collins Public Library (III)

How is Prospector Built?

Uses INN-Reach Union Catalog software from Innovative Interfaces Inc. Real-time updating of records from local systems Generic record concept

Prospector Database Size (in Millions)

25 20 15 10 5 0 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Unique Bibs Items

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

Environment
Local System Local System
INN-REACH Server

Local System
Local System

Local System

Local System

Record Types in Prospector

Bibliographic records Item records
including circulation status codes

Summary serial holdings records Order records

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

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/olinkp atrep/report2/0//?

Unique Features
Multi-state (Colorado/Wyoming) Multi-library type (academic, public, special) Multi-system (III/CARL/Voyager)

Document Ordering
User is prompted for affiliation, name and library card number System checks with local OPAC to ensure their 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)

Lending/Borrowing
Patron Request
Item Circulated Patron Verified Local System Request Filled Item Request Local System Item Sent

INN-Reach Catalog Server

Local System

Record Contribution

Local System

Document Ordering Features

Libraries have local control over what items can be delivered Libraries have local control over which of your patrons 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

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

Additional Circulation Policies

Media. 1 week, no renewals. To support sites who want to delivery videos, CDs and other special media. 1 week, no renewals. PASCAL Journals. 1 week, no renewals.

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.

Prospector Lends
350000 300000 250000 200000 150000 100000 50000 0 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Deliveries

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)

Prospector/Swift/OCLC Returnables
Source: Colorado State Library

140000 120000 100000 80000 60000 40000 20000 0 Q3/Q4 2003 Q1/Q2 2004 OCLC SWIFT Prospector

Top Lenders in Prospector (by Volume) October 2004-2005

60000 50000 40000 30000 20000 10000 0 JCPL ALD Aurora DPL FCPL CSU CUB Lent

Top Borrowers in Prospector (by Volume) October 2004-2005

80000 70000 60000 50000 40000 30000 20000 10000 0 JCPL FCPL ALD DPL Aurora CUB CSU Borrowers

New Libraries added in 2006

Colorado State Publications January 2006 University of Wyoming April 2006

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)

Adding non-III Libraries

Direct Consortial Borrowing (DCB)
Solution being developed by III Allows INN-Reach systems to add nonInnovative systems Will be released in fall 2006 Being beta tested in Michigan where over 100 non-III libraries have been added in a statewide system (including Horizon libraries)

Direct Consortial Borrowing (DCB)

It is an intermediate server that sits between your Horizon system and Prospector
It batch harvests bibs, items, circ transactions and patron data (at least once per day) It maps this data into an INN-Reach understandable format and feeds it directly into Prospector

Direct Consortial Borrowing (DCB)

One DCB server can support multiple libraries on different systems
Michigan supports >100 libraries on a single server III costs yet to be determined but based on library size and number of branches

Costs for Joining Prospector

DCB costs from III yet to be announced Annual membership fee (varies year-toyear) but in the $8K-9K range One-time Prospector membership fee to help offset some of the embedded costs already expended

Some Prospector advantages

Up and running for over 7 years Professional managed by Colorado Alliance Single physical union catalog. You always search all 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 even private schools like Regis, Colorado College and DU!

Some Prospector advantages

Article delivery integration with your link resolver (e.g. Gold Rush or other brand) High fulfillment Fast fulfillment Uses existing courier

Huge Success!
Prospector is a huge success with both patrons and library staff! It is playing an important role in delivering materials 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