Japanese libraries assess damage, begin recovery

Some three weeks after the March 11 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that has taken the lives of tens of thousands and damaged or destroyed at least 125,000 buildings in the Tōhoku (northern) region of Honshu, Japan’s main island, the Japanese library and cultural-heritage communities are utilizing email and social media to alert each other, as well as foreign colleagues and friends elsewhere, of their status