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 When the Bibliotheca Thysiana was built, the most favourable depository conditions were reckoned with. The books in the reading room are high and dry on the first floor and despite the large windows hardly any sunlight is enters. A wooden balustrade keeps the visitors away from the bookcases, the custodian hands over the required books. Thus the lay-out of the renovated Leiden University Library was followed. After a period of neglect and decay the Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana, a unique and important 17th-century library monument, was refurbished and reopened in 2001.