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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
12/01/2002 through 12/31/2002
Summary:

Total requests:    5,238
            
Book loan requests:    3,855
Book loan requests pulled:    2,727
Book loan requests not filled:    1,128
Percentage of book requests pulled:    71%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    44 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    1,383
Article loan requests filled:    864
Article loan requests not filled:    519
Percentage of article requests filled:    62%
Average hours taken to send an article:    48 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    785    29%
12 - 24 hours    763    28%
24 - 48 hours    443    16%
more than 48 hours    735    27%
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    122    14%
12 - 24 hours    177    20%
24 - 48 hours    231    27%
more than 48 hours    295    34%
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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