saveMLAK Information of rescue and support for the Museums, Libraries, Archives and Kominkans (MLAK) in Japan

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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 large scale disasters. We are gathering the information on the damages of those facilities in the disaster areas and publishing the requests for assistance from the victims. See further information.

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Facilities Information (about 26198 sites)

We are still gathering information on many facilities bellow. If you have information on how damaged and resuming of services at each facility, please provide it into our site.

Damaged Facilities

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General

• Damaged Facilities(970)
• Facilities seeking support(14)

Facilities

• Museums(Damaged:208/All:6046)
• Libraries(Damaged:655/All:13648)
• Archives(Damaged:26/All:171)
• Komikans (Community centers)(Damaged:104/All:6408)
• Related Facilities(Damaged:4/All:129)

Prefectures

Hokkaido region

Hokkaido(Damaged:2/All:1162)

Tohoku region

Aomori(Damaged:8/All:1079)

Iwate(Damaged:144/All:1413)

Miyagi(Damaged:204/All:1245)

Akita(Damaged:1/All:654)

Yamagata(Damaged:4/All:999)

Fukushima(Damaged:225/All:1697)

Kanto Region

Ibaraki(Damaged:113/All:1701)

Tochigi(Damaged:166/All:1122)

Gunma(Damaged:5/All:1054)

Saitama(Damaged:12/All:2248)

Chiba(Damaged:21/All:937)

Tokyo(Damaged:19/All:1932)

Kanagawa(Damaged:5/All:2105)

Chubu region

Niigata(Damaged:11/All:757)

Yamanashi(Damaged:2/All:581)

Nagano(Damaged:1/All:879)

Shizuoka(Damaged:3/All:559)

Chugoku region

Yamaguchi (2 / 86)

Kyushu region

Fukuoka (9 / 182)

Kumamoto (6 / 325)

Oita (11 / 152)

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 library services for the victims

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

Messages from the World

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 and donating

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.

Financial support and donation

information of inancial supprt and donation for MLAK in the area

Appeal for archives

Archiving the web sites unrenewd after March 11 ~ for the memory of people's activities in suffered areas

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.

About

saveMLAK

purpose, board members

contribution to saveMLAK

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

related events and press reports

list of events and press reports concerned the topic about save the M, L, A and K.

The portal site of museums, Internet Museum, kindly provided a list of Museums to the saveMLAK.