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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
07/01/2001 through 06/30/2002
Summary:

Total requests:    116,321
            
Book loan requests:    86,046
Book loan requests pulled:    61,991
Book loan requests not filled:    24,055
Percentage of book requests pulled:    72%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    27 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    30,275
Article loan requests filled:    18,701
Article loan requests not filled:    11,574
Percentage of article requests filled:    62%
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    20,655    33%
12 - 24 hours    19,994    32%
24 - 48 hours    10,938    18%
more than 48 hours    10,386    17%
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    2,790    15%
12 - 24 hours    5,061    27%
24 - 48 hours    4,881    26%
more than 48 hours    5,608    30%
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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