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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
09/01/2000 through 09/30/2000
Summary:

Total requests:    9,867
            
Book loan requests:    7,677
Book loan requests pulled:    4,764
Book loan requests not filled:    2,913
Percentage of book requests pulled:    62%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    28 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    2,190
Article loan requests filled:    1,289
Article loan requests not filled:    901
Percentage of article requests filled:    59%
Average hours taken to send an article:    42 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    1,652    35%
12 - 24 hours    1,371    29%
24 - 48 hours    790    17%
more than 48 hours    951    20%
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    188    15%
12 - 24 hours    346    27%
24 - 48 hours    304    24%
more than 48 hours    428    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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