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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
11/01/2002 through 11/30/2002
Summary:

Total requests:    16,397
            
Book loan requests:    12,287
Book loan requests pulled:    8,814
Book loan requests not filled:    3,473
Percentage of book requests pulled:    72%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    30 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    4,110
Article loan requests filled:    2,224
Article loan requests not filled:    1,886
Percentage of article requests filled:    54%
Average hours taken to send an article:    58 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    2,837    32%
12 - 24 hours    2,516    29%
24 - 48 hours    1,776    20%
more than 48 hours    1,681    19%
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    292    13%
12 - 24 hours    551    25%
24 - 48 hours    441    20%
more than 48 hours    772    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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