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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
12/01/2003 through 12/31/2003
Summary:

Total requests:    6,888
            
Book loan requests:    5,348
Book loan requests pulled:    3,825
Book loan requests not filled:    1,523
Percentage of book requests pulled:    72%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    44 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    1,540
Article loan requests filled:    949
Article loan requests not filled:    591
Percentage of article requests filled:    62%
Average hours taken to send an article:    49 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    1,380    36%
12 - 24 hours    872    23%
24 - 48 hours    560    15%
more than 48 hours    1,000    26%
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    87    9%
12 - 24 hours    290    31%
24 - 48 hours    301    32%
more than 48 hours    271    29%
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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