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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
10/01/2002 through 10/31/2002
Summary:

Total requests:    16,106
            
Book loan requests:    11,896
Book loan requests pulled:    8,639
Book loan requests not filled:    3,257
Percentage of book requests pulled:    73%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    31 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    4,210
Article loan requests filled:    2,268
Article loan requests not filled:    1,942
Percentage of article requests filled:    54%
Average hours taken to send an article:    39 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    3,366    39%
12 - 24 hours    2,053    24%
24 - 48 hours    1,533    18%
more than 48 hours    1,683    19%
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    421    19%
12 - 24 hours    641    28%
24 - 48 hours    565    25%
more than 48 hours    519    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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