This study profiles the efforts of five university and/or museum-related institutions to catalog and document their collections; the organizations profiled are: the Pusey House Library at Oxford University in the UK, the Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts; the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada; the Anthropology Department of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC; and the archives of the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre at Algoma University in Ontario, Canada.The report was written by Laura Phillips, formerly Head of Museums Documentation for Qatar Museums and former Collections Manager at the Wolfsonian Museum. The 88-page report looks closely at issues and problems relating to provenance, collection documentation, marketing, cataloging and findability, digitization, nomenclature, retrieval and storage mechanics, and includes information on print and other information collections (including digital) but also, perhaps with even greater emphasis, on artwork, artifacts and other objects of cultural and historic interest.