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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
04/01/2003 through 04/30/2003
Summary:

Total requests:    15,033
            
Book loan requests:    11,374
Book loan requests pulled:    8,129
Book loan requests not filled:    3,245
Percentage of book requests pulled:    71%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    33 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    3,659
Article loan requests filled:    2,291
Article loan requests not filled:    1,368
Percentage of article requests filled:    63%
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    2,774    34%
12 - 24 hours    2,098    26%
24 - 48 hours    1,386    17%
more than 48 hours    1,869    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    220    10%
12 - 24 hours    769    34%
24 - 48 hours    596    26%
more than 48 hours    706    31%
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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