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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
02/01/2001 through 02/28/2001
Summary:

Total requests:    13,013
            
Book loan requests:    9,292
Book loan requests pulled:    6,173
Book loan requests not filled:    3,119
Percentage of book requests pulled:    66%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    24 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    3,721
Article loan requests filled:    2,197
Article loan requests not filled:    1,524
Percentage of article requests filled:    59%
Average hours taken to send an article:    47 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    2,190    35%
12 - 24 hours    1,891    31%
24 - 48 hours    1,232    20%
more than 48 hours    860    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    241    11%
12 - 24 hours    447    20%
24 - 48 hours    738    34%
more than 48 hours    717    33%
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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