I think today is the first time in 10 years that I’ve bumped into “Item circulation alerts”. By default, they’re enabled for everyone and everything, and that seems to work. However, today, I noticed a library where they’re disabled alerts for most categories and item types, and then wondered why they weren’t getting item circulation emails.

I wonder if this functionality causes more harm than good these days? Looks like it was introduced in 2009 and never touched again?

Of course, removing this functionality would probably be easier said than done, as it would be a behaviour change… so maybe it would need to be deprecated over time. If no rules exist, we could just hide it. If rules do exist, we’d alert the staff that this functionality was going away in a future version?

David Cook

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