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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
08/01/2004 through 08/31/2004
Summary:

Total requests:    8,569
            
Book loan requests:    6,869
Book loan requests pulled:    5,107
Book loan requests not filled:    1,762
Percentage of book requests pulled:    74%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    27 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    1,700
Article loan requests filled:    1,069
Article loan requests not filled:    631
Percentage of article requests filled:    63%
Average hours taken to send an article:    35 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    1,573    31%
12 - 24 hours    1,578    31%
24 - 48 hours    1,087    21%
more than 48 hours    868    17%
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    209    20%
12 - 24 hours    374    35%
24 - 48 hours    241    23%
more than 48 hours    245    23%
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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