DOCLINE STATS
Membership
National
- 3,206 participating libraries
- 2,056 hospital libraries (63.34%)
- 606 academic libraries (19.14%)
- 527 other libraries—federal, special, and association (16.65%)
- 17 public libraries (.54%)
- 1,182 DOCLINE libraries participating in EFTS (36%)
Middle Atlantic Region
- 469 participating libraries
- 338 hospital libraries (72%)
- 71 academic libraries (15%)
- 56 other libraries—federal, special, and association (12%)
- 4 public libraries (1%)
- 316 DOCLINE libraries participate in EFTS (67%)
Serials
- Over 1.47 million serial holdings records nationally
- Over 247,500 serial holdings records in Middle Atlantic Region
Requests
- 2.31 million requests in FY 2006
- 92.2% fill rate
- 84% of requests are completed on first route
- 96.5% are completed on second route
- Average routes to complete a request: 1.24
- Delivery methods
- 56% of requests are filled via e-mail
- 24% of requests are filled via Ariel
- 12% of requests are filled via mail
- The average time to fill a request was only 0.89 days for a normal request, 0.31 days for a rush request which is roughly 7 hours, and 0.15 days for an urgent patient care request which is about 3.5 hours.
