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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
09/01/2003 through 09/30/2003
Summary:

Total requests:    16,348
            
Book loan requests:    13,197
Book loan requests pulled:    9,269
Book loan requests not filled:    3,928
Percentage of book requests pulled:    70%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    31 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    3,151
Article loan requests filled:    1,910
Article loan requests not filled:    1,241
Percentage of article requests filled:    61%
Average hours taken to send an article:    51 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    3,206    35%
12 - 24 hours    2,515    27%
24 - 48 hours    1,626    18%
more than 48 hours    1,919    21%
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    170    9%
12 - 24 hours    505    26%
24 - 48 hours    600    31%
more than 48 hours    635    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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