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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
10/01/2001 through 10/31/2001
Summary:

Total requests:    14,506
            
Book loan requests:    10,889
Book loan requests pulled:    7,882
Book loan requests not filled:    3,007
Percentage of book requests pulled:    72%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    24 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    3,617
Article loan requests filled:    2,253
Article loan requests not filled:    1,364
Percentage of article requests filled:    62%
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    2,649    34%
12 - 24 hours    2,695    34%
24 - 48 hours    1,532    19%
more than 48 hours    1,001    13%
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    334    15%
12 - 24 hours    626    28%
24 - 48 hours    692    31%
more than 48 hours    542    24%
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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