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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
07/01/2004 through 07/31/2004
Summary:

Total requests:    7,153
            
Book loan requests:    5,214
Book loan requests pulled:    3,941
Book loan requests not filled:    1,273
Percentage of book requests pulled:    76%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    26 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    1,939
Article loan requests filled:    1,285
Article loan requests not filled:    654
Percentage of article requests filled:    66%
Average hours taken to send an article:    37 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    1,496    38%
12 - 24 hours    1,044    26%
24 - 48 hours    704    18%
more than 48 hours    697    18%
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    264    21%
12 - 24 hours    358    28%
24 - 48 hours    321    25%
more than 48 hours    341    27%
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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