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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
10/01/2000 through 10/31/2000
Summary:

Total requests:    13,307
            
Book loan requests:    9,431
Book loan requests pulled:    6,036
Book loan requests not filled:    3,395
Percentage of book requests pulled:    64%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    24 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    3,876
Article loan requests filled:    2,441
Article loan requests not filled:    1,435
Percentage of article requests filled:    63%
Average hours taken to send an article:    44 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    2,102    35%
12 - 24 hours    1,874    31%
24 - 48 hours    1,216    20%
more than 48 hours    844    14%
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    259    11%
12 - 24 hours    530    22%
24 - 48 hours    704    29%
more than 48 hours    891    37%
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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