A Collections Management System (CMS), sometimes called a Collections Information System, is software used by the collections staff of a collecting institution — primarily museums and archives, and to a lesser degree, libraries and galleries — to organize, control, and manage collections objects by “tracking all information related to and about” those objects. A CMS is used by collections staff such as registrars, collections managers, and curators, to record information such as object locations, provenance, curatorial information, conservation reports, and exhibition histories, but that information is also accessed and used by other museum departments such as “education, membership, accounting, and administration."