Purpose
The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries was established in 1974. One major purpose of the Alliance is to share resources and provide the best terms and price to its members by group purchasing. Projects of the Alliance over the years include:
- Prospector, a unified catalog of academic, public, and other libraries in Colorado and Wyoming (current)
- Gold Rush, a database of online article resources (fulltext journals and abstracts) and access options (current)
- Alliance Digital Repository, a consortial repository service supporting the preservation of, management of, and access to digital content (current)
- CARL and UnCover (historical)
Prospector also provides a faster and more convenient mechanism for interlibrary loans from member libraries, which can be ordered by patrons directly from the catalog.
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