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In Corsane’s process model of museum, gallery, and heritage work, “resources” refers broadly to the “stuff ” that professionals collect, use, and research, which they then subject to various processes of interpretation (Part III) before they are communicated to the public in the form of various outputs (Part IV). In this section, then, contributors discuss those objects, collections, and other materials that can be understood as the “resources” that museums contain, whether it is the objects at the heart of collecting institutions or the curators, collection managers, and other staff who acquire, research, care for, and manage them. Here readers will find several chapters on collections in one form or another: collections planning, collections care and management, collection development, and collections management systems, and a chapter reviewing recent shifts in conservation practice. This section also considers the financial resources that make all this work possible – museum economics – plus a chapter on critical issues to do with sponsorship, marketing, and branding.