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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
08/01/2002 through 08/31/2002
Summary:

Total requests:    6,113
            
Book loan requests:    4,505
Book loan requests pulled:    3,206
Book loan requests not filled:    1,299
Percentage of book requests pulled:    71%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    37 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    1,608
Article loan requests filled:    1,022
Article loan requests not filled:    586
Percentage of article requests filled:    64%
Average hours taken to send an article:    39 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    842    26%
12 - 24 hours    1,031    32%
24 - 48 hours    500    16%
more than 48 hours    833    26%
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    120    12%
12 - 24 hours    276    27%
24 - 48 hours    335    33%
more than 48 hours    270    26%
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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