According to a 1993 report, approximately 25% of the 80,000 items belonging to the Magliabecchi and Palatino collections had not been fully restored in the nearly thirty years since the flood. The number of conservators that work at the library presently is only about a tenth of the amount that worked there immediately after the flood.
A 1993 report noted that roughly 25% of the 80,000 items from the Magliabecchi and Palatino collections had not been fully restored in nearly thirty years since the flood. The current number of conservators at the library is about one-tenth of what it was immediately after the flood.