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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
07/02/2003 through 06/30/2004
Summary:

Total requests:    171,742
            
Book loan requests:    134,436
Book loan requests pulled:    97,432
Book loan requests not filled:    37,004
Percentage of book requests pulled:    72%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    32 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    37,306
Article loan requests filled:    22,669
Article loan requests not filled:    14,637
Percentage of article requests filled:    61%
Average hours taken to send an article:    47 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    33,025    34%
12 - 24 hours    25,853    27%
24 - 48 hours    17,908    18%
more than 48 hours    20,613    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    2,405    11%
12 - 24 hours    7,153    32%
24 - 48 hours    6,424    28%
more than 48 hours    6,663    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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