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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
02/01/2002 through 02/28/2002
Summary:

Total requests:    13,694
            
Book loan requests:    9,929
Book loan requests pulled:    7,196
Book loan requests not filled:    2,733
Percentage of book requests pulled:    72%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    25 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    3,765
Article loan requests filled:    2,276
Article loan requests not filled:    1,489
Percentage of article requests filled:    60%
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    2,634    37%
12 - 24 hours    2,228    31%
24 - 48 hours    1,247    17%
more than 48 hours    1,085    15%
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    300    13%
12 - 24 hours    623    27%
24 - 48 hours    580    25%
more than 48 hours    773    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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