As a practicing librarian 'reservoir' is a term that I am so used to, and I am very sure most librarians are On 17 April 2014 11:51, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
Stephen Hedges wrote:
I remember ~years~ ago in the early days of Koha, we had a discussion about what to call this pool of records. I think "reservoir" may have been my suggestion, but I've never been happy with that term. There must be a better, more descriptive term.
The only term which comes to my mind now as possibly better is "cache" but would that be understood by more librarians? I wonder if it's become more mainstream with the rise of geocaching and so on.
I don't see it in the original discussion that ended with http://lists.katipo.co.nz/public/koha/2004/008182.html (you'll need to use the thread index because some people were using metadata-losing email clients back then). At least "reservoir" still seems like an improvement on "breeding farm" :-)
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