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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
03/01/2003 through 03/31/2003
Summary:

Total requests:    15,794
            
Book loan requests:    12,153
Book loan requests pulled:    8,696
Book loan requests not filled:    3,457
Percentage of book requests pulled:    72%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    28 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    3,641
Article loan requests filled:    2,235
Article loan requests not filled:    1,406
Percentage of article requests filled:    61%
Average hours taken to send an article:    45 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    3,011    35%
12 - 24 hours    2,385    27%
24 - 48 hours    1,722    20%
more than 48 hours    1,576    18%
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    303    14%
12 - 24 hours    652    29%
24 - 48 hours    549    25%
more than 48 hours    730    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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