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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
02/01/2003 through 02/28/2003
Summary:

Total requests:    14,092
            
Book loan requests:    10,721
Book loan requests pulled:    7,696
Book loan requests not filled:    3,025
Percentage of book requests pulled:    72%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    34 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    3,371
Article loan requests filled:    2,034
Article loan requests not filled:    1,337
Percentage of article requests filled:    60%
Average hours taken to send an article:    54 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    2,655    34%
12 - 24 hours    2,014    26%
24 - 48 hours    1,221    16%
more than 48 hours    1,804    23%
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    242    12%
12 - 24 hours    539    26%
24 - 48 hours    473    23%
more than 48 hours    774    38%
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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