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WRLC Consortium Loan Performance Summary
06/01/2004 through 06/30/2004
Summary:

Total requests:    7,767
            
Book loan requests:    5,629
Book loan requests pulled:    4,210
Book loan requests not filled:    1,419
Percentage of book requests pulled:    75%
Average hours taken to pull a book:    24 hrs.
            
Article loan requests:    2,138
Article loan requests filled:    1,390
Article loan requests not filled:    748
Percentage of article requests filled:    65%
Average hours taken to send an article:    35 hrs.


By Hours Taken to Pull a Book for Loan:

Hours Taken to Pull     Number of
Requests
     Percentage    
less than 12 hours    1,593    38%
12 - 24 hours    1,181    28%
24 - 48 hours    825    20%
more than 48 hours    611    15%
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    228    16%
12 - 24 hours    442    32%
24 - 48 hours    442    32%
more than 48 hours    277    20%
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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