Rose Nelson Assistant Director/Prospector Coordinator CO
Alliance Prospector Annual Directors Meeting 2014
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Prospector Update 2014 Peer to Peer with Mobius Prospector by
the numbers Loveland Public Library joins Content Comparison
System
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Snapshot of MOBIUS nonprofit 501(C)(3) library consortium
created in 1998 for resource sharing amongst the academic libraries
in Missouri Fully supported by membership and assessment 11
clusters and handful of standalone systems new cluster 2015 will
include Botanical Gardens, Museum Supports Evergreen for small
publics in the state
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Mobius by the Numbers 70 libraries61 academics, 5 publics, 2
special libraries, Missouri State Library, & 2 associate
members representing 168 physical branches 27 million items in
total 11 staff / 10 systems (including I-R) 80 million records
loaded annually Manage delivery
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Peer to Peer Requesting Both systems maintain their own union
catalog All patrons can request equally from either union catalog
Staff receive and process requests from both systems in the same
way
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Central and Local System Configuration Patron Types Item Types
Loan Rules Loan Rule Determiner Table Locations/Pickup
Locations
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New Delivery System
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Courier Service Three couriers (CO, KS, MO) Goodland Public
library exchange point 5-day a week service Delivery service is
called ProMO No upfront costs, but must count transactions as part
of CO library courier stats
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3 Couriers Goodland KS Kansas City, MO Denver, CO
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Challenges
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Packaging
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Patron Privacy Concerns
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Work Around
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Shipping Labels CO slip only includes courier code no address
New MO slip includes library address
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Lend Most to MOBIUS
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Borrow Most from MOBIUS
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Overall Lends/Borrows-MOBIUS
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Prospector by the Numbers
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Prospector Map
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Database Statistics Over 12 million bib records Over 33 million
item records With Mobius access to 60 million + items 60% of
Prospector is unique (held by one library)
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Lends by the year
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Prospector Top Lenders
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Prospector Top Borrowers
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Google Analytics-Prospector Over 77% of searches are referred
from local catalogs or other places
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Loveland Public Library is REALLY into Prospector
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Loveland Public Library Live in Prospector in May 2014 Local
system-Innovative Serves a community of 70,000 people 2012
completed a major expansion and renovation of the library 160,000
holdings-DVDs, monographs, audio, Pre-loaded Nooks and more 11,131
fulfillments to date; Net Lender
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Future Initiatives
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Content Comparison Tool Being developed by the CO Alliance of
Research Libraries Shared print management system is the impetus
Initially compare one library to another or to Prospector as a
whole System Guts SOLR-index (Amazon Cloud uses this) Google-ingest
MARC records
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Content Comparison continued Record matching algorithm uses
fields of the MARC record independent of OCLC numbers, ISSN/ISBNs
Real time comparisons with ability to export reports Facets to
narrow search by selected fields Eventually ingest other MARC
record sets Alternative to expensive commercial products with
little local content
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Innovative Integrate Polaris First quarter 2015 Polaris to be
integrated with Innovative Eliminate the DCB and NCIP DPL connect
directly to Prospector through API Should improve DPLs performance
and overall reliability
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Highlights: Release 2014 INN-Reach Title Reports Export reports
(full MARC record or Excel spreadsheet Borrowing lending
transactions for Prospector & MOBIUS Should be available before
first quarter 2015 Pass-through search from a local WebPac catalog
to a central Encore catalog now works Enables libraries to better
facilitate activities related to shared print management across
multiple institutions
