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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
11/01/2001 through 11/30/2001
Summary:

Total requests:    14,867
            
Book loan requests:    10,904
Book loan requests pulled:    7,646
Book loan requests not filled:    3,258
Percentage of book requests pulled:    70%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    31 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    3,963
Article loan requests filled:    2,322
Article loan requests not filled:    1,641
Percentage of article requests filled:    59%
Average hours taken to send an article:    49 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    2,730    36%
12 - 24 hours    1,989    26%
24 - 48 hours    1,363    18%
more than 48 hours    1,560    20%
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    352    15%
12 - 24 hours    629    27%
24 - 48 hours    531    23%
more than 48 hours    766    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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