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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
01/01/2004 through 01/31/2004
Summary:

Total requests:    17,525
            
Book loan requests:    15,118
Book loan requests pulled:    10,449
Book loan requests not filled:    4,669
Percentage of book requests pulled:    69%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    39 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    2,407
Article loan requests filled:    1,473
Article loan requests not filled:    934
Percentage of article requests filled:    61%
Average hours taken to send an article:    55 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    2,955    28%
12 - 24 hours    2,484    24%
24 - 48 hours    2,177    21%
more than 48 hours    2,830    27%
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    117    8%
12 - 24 hours    373    25%
24 - 48 hours    447    30%
more than 48 hours    535    36%
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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