The book chapter authored by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alpaslan Hamdi KUZUCUOĞLU from IMU Department of Information and Document Management titled “Önleyici Korumada İnsan Kaynaklı Risk Faktörleri” (Human-Induced Risk Factors in Preventive Protection) was published in the book “Kültürel Miras Uygulamalarında Önleyici Koruma” (Preventive Protection in Cultural Heritage Practices).
In his study, KUZUCUOĞLU stated that there are negative conditions that can harm people, buildings and collection elements in the library, archive and museum buildings and annexes that contain cultural heritage artifacts, and mentioned that the greatest damage is due to emergencies and disasters. However, KUZUCUOĞLU stated that the damages caused by natural disasters are also related to human-induced risk factors, adding that human-made risk factors prevent the protection of cultural heritage artifacts in cities. In this sense, KUZUCUOĞLU listed the the risk parameters that damage cultural heritage artefacts as information security, security problems, hardware and software problems, transportation, cleaning, storage risks and structural problems and drew attention to the importance of awareness-raising activities on this issue.
We congratulate our faculty member and wish him continued success.