[Koha] What is a "reservoir"

[Chrispin Simasiku Sitali]

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 at 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" :-)
>
> Regards,
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