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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
10/01/1999 through 06/30/2000
Summary:

Total requests:    50,491
            
Book loan requests:    45,440
Book loan requests pulled:    28,172
Book loan requests not filled:    17,268
Percentage of book requests pulled:    62%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    27 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    5,051
Article loan requests filled:    1,122
Article loan requests not filled:    3,929
Percentage of article requests filled:    22%
Average hours taken to send an article:    32 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    9,581    34%
12 - 24 hours    9,228    33%
24 - 48 hours    4,720    17%
more than 48 hours    4,643    16%
Note: "Hours taken to pull a book" is the time elapsed between placing the original request on Voyager and when the item was charged to the "in transit" patron at the lending library, indicating that the item has been pulled from the shelf and processed for pickup by the WRLC courier.


By Hours Taken to Send an Article for Loan:

Hours Taken to Send     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    337    30%
12 - 24 hours    297    26%
24 - 48 hours    256    23%
more than 48 hours    232    21%
Note: "Hours taken to send an article" is the time elapsed between placing the original request on Voyager and when the request is marked as "filled" in the CLS system, indicating that the article has been scanned and transmitted to the borrowing library.

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