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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
07/01/2002 through 06/27/2003
Summary:

Total requests:    133,788
            
Book loan requests:    101,310
Book loan requests pulled:    72,011
Book loan requests not filled:    29,299
Percentage of book requests pulled:    71%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    32 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    32,478
Article loan requests filled:    19,498
Article loan requests not filled:    12,980
Percentage of article requests filled:    60%
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    24,227    34%
12 - 24 hours    19,917    28%
24 - 48 hours    12,866    18%
more than 48 hours    14,983    21%
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    2,733    14%
12 - 24 hours    5,317    27%
24 - 48 hours    5,047    26%
more than 48 hours    5,951    31%
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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