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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
04/01/2004 through 04/30/2004
Summary:

Total requests:    17,548
            
Book loan requests:    13,740
Book loan requests pulled:    9,931
Book loan requests not filled:    3,809
Percentage of book requests pulled:    72%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    30 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    3,808
Article loan requests filled:    2,252
Article loan requests not filled:    1,556
Percentage of article requests filled:    59%
Average hours taken to send an article:    40 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    3,292    33%
12 - 24 hours    2,856    29%
24 - 48 hours    1,774    18%
more than 48 hours    2,005    20%
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    204    9%
12 - 24 hours    805    36%
24 - 48 hours    662    29%
more than 48 hours    580    26%
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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