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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
08/01/2003 through 08/31/2003
Summary:

Total requests:    8,213
            
Book loan requests:    6,513
Book loan requests pulled:    4,837
Book loan requests not filled:    1,676
Percentage of book requests pulled:    74%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    34 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    1,700
Article loan requests filled:    1,040
Article loan requests not filled:    660
Percentage of article requests filled:    61%
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    1,340    28%
12 - 24 hours    1,392    29%
24 - 48 hours    956    20%
more than 48 hours    1,149    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    229    22%
12 - 24 hours    224    22%
24 - 48 hours    218    21%
more than 48 hours    369    35%
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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