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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
02/01/2004 through 02/29/2004
Summary:

Total requests:    19,575
            
Book loan requests:    15,209
Book loan requests pulled:    11,286
Book loan requests not filled:    3,923
Percentage of book requests pulled:    74%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    28 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    4,366
Article loan requests filled:    2,645
Article loan requests not filled:    1,721
Percentage of article requests filled:    61%
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    4,046    36%
12 - 24 hours    2,997    27%
24 - 48 hours    2,151    19%
more than 48 hours    2,089    19%
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    240    9%
12 - 24 hours    855    32%
24 - 48 hours    775    29%
more than 48 hours    772    29%
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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