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Turkey has experienced many natural or human-caused disasters, especially earthquakes, as of the geographical region in which it is located. For example, the Covid-19 epidemic, which has spread rapidly in recent months and has affected the whole world, is a biological disaster that forces the state and individuals to take precautions in this regard and to regulate business and private life accordingly. Past and present disasters caused the loss of life of libraries in many parts of the world, because it is damaged or even destroyed the cultural heritage of humanity on these issues in a number of scientific research are abundant. But a very large part of this work was done not directly to the library building, but to protect the non-structural elements inside the building and the collections. Although damage to non-structural elements in disasters leads to greater loss, if structural elements are disaster-resistant, non-structural elements are also largely protected. Undoubtedly, everything under a collapsed building will be damaged. With this study, it is aimed to draw attention to the importance of the design of the library building, to make up for this deficiency in the literature and to help the future studies on the subject.