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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
11/01/2000 through 11/30/2000
Summary:

Total requests:    13,463
            
Book loan requests:    9,439
Book loan requests pulled:    5,960
Book loan requests not filled:    3,479
Percentage of book requests pulled:    63%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    36 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    4,024
Article loan requests filled:    2,300
Article loan requests not filled:    1,724
Percentage of article requests filled:    57%
Average hours taken to send an article:    59 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    1,856    31%
12 - 24 hours    1,448    24%
24 - 48 hours    1,009    17%
more than 48 hours    1,647    28%
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    220    10%
12 - 24 hours    414    18%
24 - 48 hours    683    30%
more than 48 hours    922    40%
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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