Stephen B. Ringle, Registrar/Preparator writes: I used to do that, but our director did not like the blatent designation "missing", so I was forced to use more circumspect means of irecording and identifying what we could not readily locate. This was, to me, a hassle. I appreciated the politics and diplomatic aspects of what the director was saying, but from a pragmatic collections management point of view, needed a quick and easy means of listing what was currently lost or missing. >>>>>>> How about "Location Unknown" ? It doesn't jump out on reports like the word Missing.