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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
08/01/2001 through 08/31/2001
Summary:

Total requests:    6,433
            
Book loan requests:    5,011
Book loan requests pulled:    3,503
Book loan requests not filled:    1,508
Percentage of book requests pulled:    70%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    27 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    1,422
Article loan requests filled:    942
Article loan requests not filled:    480
Percentage of article requests filled:    66%
Average hours taken to send an article:    36 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    1,035    30%
12 - 24 hours    1,316    38%
24 - 48 hours    592    17%
more than 48 hours    560    16%
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    144    15%
12 - 24 hours    223    24%
24 - 48 hours    342    36%
more than 48 hours    209    22%
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.

Home Comments Updated 09/07/2001