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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
04/01/2001 through 04/30/2001
Summary:

Total requests:    11,860
            
Book loan requests:    8,617
Book loan requests pulled:    6,199
Book loan requests not filled:    2,418
Percentage of book requests pulled:    72%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    25 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    3,243
Article loan requests filled:    2,033
Article loan requests not filled:    1,210
Percentage of article requests filled:    63%
Average hours taken to send an article:    47 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    2,043    33%
12 - 24 hours    2,208    36%
24 - 48 hours    1,080    17%
more than 48 hours    866    14%
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    239    12%
12 - 24 hours    484    24%
24 - 48 hours    609    30%
more than 48 hours    645    32%
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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