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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
01/01/2001 through 01/31/2001
Summary:

Total requests:    9,756
            
Book loan requests:    7,811
Book loan requests pulled:    5,373
Book loan requests not filled:    2,438
Percentage of book requests pulled:    69%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    28 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    1,945
Article loan requests filled:    1,216
Article loan requests not filled:    729
Percentage of article requests filled:    63%
Average hours taken to send an article:    46 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    1,732    32%
12 - 24 hours    1,629    30%
24 - 48 hours    1,021    19%
more than 48 hours    991    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    229    19%
12 - 24 hours    202    17%
24 - 48 hours    294    24%
more than 48 hours    459    38%
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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