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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
09/01/2001 through 09/30/2001
Summary:

Total requests:    9,474
            
Book loan requests:    7,128
Book loan requests pulled:    5,148
Book loan requests not filled:    1,980
Percentage of book requests pulled:    72%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    27 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    2,346
Article loan requests filled:    1,456
Article loan requests not filled:    890
Percentage of article requests filled:    62%
Average hours taken to send an article:    40 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    1,724    33%
12 - 24 hours    1,561    30%
24 - 48 hours    863    17%
more than 48 hours    1,000    19%
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    178    12%
12 - 24 hours    378    26%
24 - 48 hours    445    31%
more than 48 hours    410    28%
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.

Home Comments Updated 10/07/2001