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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
01/01/2003 through 01/31/2003
Summary:

Total requests:    14,002
            
Book loan requests:    11,762
Book loan requests pulled:    8,145
Book loan requests not filled:    3,617
Percentage of book requests pulled:    69%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    30 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    2,240
Article loan requests filled:    1,468
Article loan requests not filled:    772
Percentage of article requests filled:    66%
Average hours taken to send an article:    47 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    2,703    33%
12 - 24 hours    2,434    30%
24 - 48 hours    1,406    17%
more than 48 hours    1,602    20%
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    186    13%
12 - 24 hours    344    23%
24 - 48 hours    445    30%
more than 48 hours    482    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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