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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
06/01/2003 through 06/27/2003
Summary:

Total requests:    5,879
            
Book loan requests:    4,090
Book loan requests pulled:    2,984
Book loan requests not filled:    1,106
Percentage of book requests pulled:    73%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    28 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    1,789
Article loan requests filled:    1,118
Article loan requests not filled:    671
Percentage of article requests filled:    62%
Average hours taken to send an article:    34 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    1,046    35%
12 - 24 hours    921    31%
24 - 48 hours    492    16%
more than 48 hours    525    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    238    21%
12 - 24 hours    271    24%
24 - 48 hours    345    31%
more than 48 hours    264    24%
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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