[Koha] What is a "reservoir"

[MJ Ray]

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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