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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
07/02/2003 through 07/31/2003
Summary:

Total requests:    6,200
            
Book loan requests:    4,134
Book loan requests pulled:    3,104
Book loan requests not filled:    1,030
Percentage of book requests pulled:    75%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    29 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    2,066
Article loan requests filled:    1,356
Article loan requests not filled:    710
Percentage of article requests filled:    66%
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    1,124    36%
12 - 24 hours    884    28%
24 - 48 hours    482    16%
more than 48 hours    613    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    273    20%
12 - 24 hours    394    29%
24 - 48 hours    313    23%
more than 48 hours    376    28%
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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