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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
01/01/2002 through 01/31/2002
Summary:

Total requests:    11,391
            
Book loan requests:    9,435
Book loan requests pulled:    6,578
Book loan requests not filled:    2,857
Percentage of book requests pulled:    70%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    29 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    1,956
Article loan requests filled:    1,276
Article loan requests not filled:    680
Percentage of article requests filled:    65%
Average hours taken to send an article:    44 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    2,028    31%
12 - 24 hours    2,002    30%
24 - 48 hours    1,264    19%
more than 48 hours    1,282    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    219    17%
12 - 24 hours    305    24%
24 - 48 hours    307    24%
more than 48 hours    416    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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