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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
12/01/2001 through 12/31/2001
Summary:

Total requests:    4,487
            
Book loan requests:    3,319
Book loan requests pulled:    2,346
Book loan requests not filled:    973
Percentage of book requests pulled:    71%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    33 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    1,168
Article loan requests filled:    662
Article loan requests not filled:    506
Percentage of article requests filled:    57%
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    785    33%
12 - 24 hours    645    27%
24 - 48 hours    445    19%
more than 48 hours    470    20%
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    120    18%
12 - 24 hours    162    24%
24 - 48 hours    138    21%
more than 48 hours    221    33%
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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