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1. Appraisal and Collection Development Exercise: In 1 or 2 paragraphs, write a collecting policy for a fictional institution that you create. Then find eight actual collections online that your institution has been asked to accept. Two collections should be definite fits; two should be reasonably (not wildly!) out of scope; and four should be debatable. For the four debatable collections, list the pros and cons of each and decide whether to add it to your holdings, and describe what appraisal methods and/or theories you employ. Include the web address in a footnote and then as much information from the finding aid (likely the lead paragraph or two, which you could cut and paste into the document, if appropriate) that contextualizes your decision. The core of this assignment and upon what you mostly will be graded is the rationale you will write for each debatable, which should be no more than a paragraph or two.