Session Proposal – Contemporary collecting: What is it, why is it important, how do we do it?

There has been discussion, in news media as well as social media, about the loss of collections from times past, but what about the failure to collect “things” that we wish someone would have saved?  How many of you have ever said “I wish I would have asked …. before _______ died”?  Perhaps some brainstorming now about collecting physical as well as born-digital things and stories and memories will save us from that lament.