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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
07/01/2000 through 06/30/2001
Summary:

Total requests:    107,394
            
Book loan requests:    77,325
Book loan requests pulled:    52,090
Book loan requests not filled:    25,235
Percentage of book requests pulled:    67%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    28 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    30,069
Article loan requests filled:    18,625
Article loan requests not filled:    11,444
Percentage of article requests filled:    62%
Average hours taken to send an article:    46 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    16,940    33%
12 - 24 hours    16,377    31%
24 - 48 hours    9,432    18%
more than 48 hours    9,338    18%
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    2,580    14%
12 - 24 hours    4,163    22%
24 - 48 hours    5,134    28%
more than 48 hours    6,367    34%
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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