6th Timed Document Delivery Exercise

In January/February 2008 we took a sample of 200 document requests by our searchers to see how far we met our target of 5 minutes per order.

Here are the results compared with those of previous surveys:

Date / Average time per order / % in 5 mins or less

Jan 2001: 4 mins 9 seconds 83%

Mar 2003: 4 mins 5 seconds 85%

September 2004: 3 mins 58 seconds 91%

December 2006: 4 mins 4 seconds 80.5%

Jan/Feb 2008: 4 mins 84%