saveMLAK/en

日本語

saveMLAK is a website about the Museums (including art galleries, science centers, aquariums, zoos, botanical gardens, etc.), Libraries, Archives and Kouminkans(community centers) (MLAK) in Japan stricken by 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. We are gathering the information on the damages of the those facilities in the disaster area and publishing the requests for assistance from the victims. See further information.

Information on the Quake-hit areas

Facilities

• Museums
• Libraries
• Archives
• Komikans (Community centers)
• Gender equality centers

Prefectures

• Hokkaido
• Aomori / Iwate / Miyagi / Akita / Yamagata / Fukushima
• Ibaraki / Tochigi / Gunma / Saitama / Chiba / Tokyo / Kanagawa
• Niigata / Yamanashi / Nagano

Damaged Facilities

地図を読み込み中...

Information for the people

Information for the victims and refugees

Helpful information for the victims in the suffered area

Free legal counseling, contact information of insurance companies, medical information, mental healthcare...

Information on the services of libraries throughout Japan for the victims and messages from the World also available.

Information for teachers and parents.

Govemental information on education.

How to make a lesson plan on the Earthquake. Useful books for the mental healthcare of children.

To the teenagers.

Information for junior and senior high school students.

Services of university libraries for suffered college students and professors.

Information of university libraries available to external students.

Book Donation Activities for the Quake-hit area.

Information for facility staffs and the volunteers in the Quake-hit area

Information for the restoration of materials.

Resources on the resource preservation and restoration such as antifungal treatments, flood control measures, water damage, and so on.

Required goods for reconstruction of facillities

Required goods for reconstruction of facillities, from debris removal to preparation for reopening.

Resouces for the reconstruction of libraries and recovering of library services.

Information of the supports of librarians' works

Operation status of the inter-library web services, supports for inter-library lending and reference services.

Research grant for studies on the earthquake disaster

To people interested in volunteering

Registration for the volunteers of experts of MLAK

Providing the volunteer information matching with registrants' skills.

saveMLAK

We welcome your contribution to saveMLAK. For more information: saveMLK: Community Portal.

2nd saveMLAK Meet Up - April 19 Night (in GMT+9): Call for agendas.

Appeal for archives

For long-time use of your valuable photographs.

Photo archives with Flickr.

Book Donation Activities for the Quake-hit area.

Media sources.

To librarians, curators, archivists and similar jobs in other areas

What librarians can do to support the victims and refugees.

What university librarians can do for the suffered students and professors.

What school librarians can do.

Libraries providing the information concerning on the disaster.