- Faculty Requests
Our efforts to encourage faculty to submit requests for needed library resources are paying off, especially the 2006-2007 fund allocation whereby we allotted $700 of book budget funds to each dept. Each of the most recent years has seen steady increases in the number of faculty requests, specifically:
2006-2007 - 135 requests (as of only Feb. 2007)
2005-2006 - 101 requests
2004-2005 - 75 requests
2003-2004 - 30 requests
- The time between placing an order for an item and when that item is processed and ready averages about 11 days (this includes a time lapse for back-ordered items, so in daily practice it's actually faster than that).
Not bad considering that in 2002 the average was 74 days (of course this was before we started using CatExpress for copy cataloging). That means we now process items 84% faster than five years ago!
