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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
09/01/2002 through 09/30/2002
Summary:

Total requests:    13,446
            
Book loan requests:    10,764
Book loan requests pulled:    7,216
Book loan requests not filled:    3,548
Percentage of book requests pulled:    67%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    31 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    2,682
Article loan requests filled:    1,532
Article loan requests not filled:    1,150
Percentage of article requests filled:    57%
Average hours taken to send an article:    51 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    2,538    35%
12 - 24 hours    1,849    26%
24 - 48 hours    1,339    19%
more than 48 hours    1,489    21%
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    224    15%
12 - 24 hours    465    30%
24 - 48 hours    306    20%
more than 48 hours    499    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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