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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
10/01/2003 through 10/31/2003
Summary:

Total requests:    21,409
            
Book loan requests:    16,302
Book loan requests pulled:    12,141
Book loan requests not filled:    4,161
Percentage of book requests pulled:    74%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    32 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    5,107
Article loan requests filled:    3,200
Article loan requests not filled:    1,907
Percentage of article requests filled:    63%
Average hours taken to send an article:    52 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    4,376    36%
12 - 24 hours    3,053    25%
24 - 48 hours    2,121    17%
more than 48 hours    2,589    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    299    9%
12 - 24 hours    1,146    36%
24 - 48 hours    756    24%
more than 48 hours    995    31%
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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