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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
05/01/2003 through 05/31/2003
Summary:

Total requests:    6,436
            
Book loan requests:    4,695
Book loan requests pulled:    3,380
Book loan requests not filled:    1,315
Percentage of book requests pulled:    72%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    33 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    1,741
Article loan requests filled:    1,122
Article loan requests not filled:    619
Percentage of article requests filled:    64%
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    1,032    31%
12 - 24 hours    965    29%
24 - 48 hours    576    17%
more than 48 hours    807    24%
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    185    16%
12 - 24 hours    279    25%
24 - 48 hours    302    27%
more than 48 hours    355    32%
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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