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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
03/01/2002 through 03/31/2002
Summary:

Total requests:    13,358
            
Book loan requests:    9,941
Book loan requests pulled:    7,278
Book loan requests not filled:    2,663
Percentage of book requests pulled:    73%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    26 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    3,417
Article loan requests filled:    2,097
Article loan requests not filled:    1,320
Percentage of article requests filled:    61%
Average hours taken to send an article:    48 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    2,276    31%
12 - 24 hours    2,583    35%
24 - 48 hours    1,209    17%
more than 48 hours    1,209    17%
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    289    14%
12 - 24 hours    589    28%
24 - 48 hours    478    23%
more than 48 hours    724    35%
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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