Average turnaround time for new titles in Cataloging in December was 1 working day; average for the first half of FY13 is 1.29 working days. This includes only time that materials were in Cataloging; it does not include time in Technical Processing.
In December, the average turnaround time for borrowing materials in ILL was 12 calendar days. This includes only time from the date requests are sent out from ILL to the date that they are received in ILL; it does not include routing time between MLS libraries and ILL.
The average daily run for December was 755 items per day, for a total of 14,354 items in December. The average for January so far is 902 items per day. The processors are still current on processing all “rush” materials; they are processing non-rush materials from January 10, which is from the run 6 working days ago. Study guides and dated materials like continuations are also current.
