[Koha] What is a "reservoir"

[Fred King]

For other projects where I store files for future editing, I use "holding
tank". Or maybe "holding area" would be more intuitive?

Fred King
kohauser at phred.us

> However, as a librarian, cache makes more sense to me than reservoir  But
> then, English is not the most precise language!
> Come to think of it, don't both words come from French? ;-)
> Whatever it is called, I agree that more information on purging or
> cleaning
> it out, plus guidance on when and when not to do it, etc. would be
> welcome.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Chrispin Simasiku Sitali <
> libsitali at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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" :-)
>> >
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