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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
05/01/2002 through 05/31/2002
Summary:

Total requests:    5,132
            
Book loan requests:    3,572
Book loan requests pulled:    2,628
Book loan requests not filled:    944
Percentage of book requests pulled:    74%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    31 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    1,560
Article loan requests filled:    986
Article loan requests not filled:    574
Percentage of article requests filled:    63%
Average hours taken to send an article:    38 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    769    29%
12 - 24 hours    826    31%
24 - 48 hours    437    17%
more than 48 hours    595    23%
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    157    16%
12 - 24 hours    286    29%
24 - 48 hours    272    28%
more than 48 hours    248    25%
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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