Friends: Our librarians collect, preserve and curate a variety of print materials - journals, books, reports, theses, libraries of eminent individuals including their lab notebooks, drawings and correspondence and so on. They also preserve audio and video recordings, films, photographs, etc. But what about the stuff in the web and social media? A seminar at the University of Michigan plans to look at this important question. Here is an excerpt from a note I received: "While research in almost all disciplines increasingly relies on evidence gleaned from websites, social media platforms, and other online resources, we are still just figuring out how to preserve web materials for future use. As instructors and scholars embrace these primary sources and discover new and innovative ways to interact with web data, their efforts are aligned--knowingly or not--with those of developers and curators. Web Archives 2015 brings together developers, curators, and researchers to explore the following questions: How do collecting policies and appraisal decisions shape web archives? How can web archives be effectively integrated with classroom instruction and academic discourse in general? How do available resources and technologies influence the extent and success of web captures? How do scholars want to access and interact with web archives? How can individual scholars ensure that the materials that they need will be available both for their research and for documenting their work? What tools can optimize the use and reuse of archived websites and online materials? What measures of confidence does the academic community have in the use of archived websites for research? How can librarians, archivists, and technologists preserve the functionality and utility of complex web resources over the long-term?" -- Is it not time for us in India to address these questions as part of our M LIb Sci courses and discuss among research and academic librarians? Best wishes. Arun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4398-4658 http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-9925-2009 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.