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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
05/01/2004 through 05/31/2004
Summary:

Total requests:    7,088
            
Book loan requests:    5,522
Book loan requests pulled:    4,187
Book loan requests not filled:    1,335
Percentage of book requests pulled:    76%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    29 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    1,566
Article loan requests filled:    979
Article loan requests not filled:    587
Percentage of article requests filled:    63%
Average hours taken to send an article:    43 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    1,449    35%
12 - 24 hours    1,137    27%
24 - 48 hours    797    19%
more than 48 hours    804    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    135    14%
12 - 24 hours    277    28%
24 - 48 hours    277    28%
more than 48 hours    290    30%
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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