The authors thoughts on the idea that archivists don't have the desire to create these policies is really curious to me. I can see the policy having, like the author argues, positive impacts on the integrity of a collection, but are archivists in these institutions concerned with integrity? I wonder about archivist motivation - if motivation of collecting was probed a bit more in these questions how that would affect the answers.

My main experience in an archive is a free community archive, which is not for profit and maybe is a space mostly for indipendant research. At Interference Archive, they have a collections policy and regularly consult it and use it to manage thier limited space, specifically, among other things.

As I become more familiar with the definitions of provenance, this particular instance compels me as I can see many examples of this in some of the media that I consume -

For instance, there is a zine called Sex Change USA by Daisy Thursday [https://luma.com/o1iss5rd] that is a collection of “stories where transgender people were covered in the National Esquire, Sun, and Weekly World News tabloids from 1993-2002.”

What I took away from Sex Change USA was not only a better understanding of the different contexts the pieces from the zine have lived in and do currently live in but a better understanding of the context of it’s current time and how those pieces interact with and inform each other.