I guess a different option for both this and bug 36455 would be to add a link on the home page with patron mods/purchase suggestions for the library's hold queue + count of your library's queue.
Created attachment 174900 [details] Holds queue count on circ home holds queue button I took a slightly different approach and added the count of holds to the Holds queue button on the Circulation home page. The count is pulled with a report then inserted via jQuery into a bootstrap label. I attached a screenshot for illustrative purposes.
Yep! Would be a nice thing for staff to see, so long as there was a way to turn it off/on just in case the number wasn't terribly accurate and turned out to be more confusing than accurate due to holdings prioritization.