Library Hotel by Library Hotel Collection [1] is a 60-room boutique hotel in New York City, located at 299 Madison Avenue (at 41st Street), near the New York Public Library, Bryant Park, and Grand Central Terminal. The hotel was designed by architect Stephen B. Jacobs.

Library Hotel by Library Hotel Collection boasts a unique organizing principle: each of its ten guest floors has a theme, designated after a major category of the Dewey Decimal Classification (the 5th floor, for example, is the 500s, the Sciences), with each room as a subcategory or genre, such as Mathematics (Room 500.001) or Botany (Room 500.004). (Dewey categories 000, 100, and 200 are placed on the 10th, 11th, and 12th floors, respectively.) Other room themes include Erotic Literature (Room 800.001), Poetry (Room 800.003), and Music (Room 700.005). All rooms have a small complement of 50-100 books and decorations that accompany the theme, with 6,000 books overall throughout the hotel.

Because of this classification scheme, the hotel owners were sued in 2003 by the OCLC (owners of the Dewey Decimal Classification system). OCLC reached an agreement with the hotel enabling the hotel to continue using the Dewey system.[2]

Hotel Denouement from Lemony Snicket's The Penultimate Peril was modeled after the Library Hotel.[citation needed]

The Library Hotel is owned and operated by Henry Kallan whose Library Hotel Collection includes Manhattan's Casablanca Hotel, Hotel Giraffe and Hotel Elysee. A spin off of the Library Hotel's "book lovers' paradise" concept is the Library Hotel Collection's Aria Hotel concept designed for music lovers. Aria Hotel Prague opened in 2003 and Aria Hotel Budapest opened in 2015 and was named the #1 ranked hotel in the world for guest satisfaction in the 2017 TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice Awards.[3]

Room menu [ edit ]

Third Floor: Social Sciences

300.006 Law

300.005 Money

300.004 World Culture

300.003 Economics

300.002 Political Science

300.001 Communication

Fourth Floor: Language

400.006 Ancient Language

400.005 Middle Eastern Language

400.004 Asian Language

400.003 Germanic Language

400.002 Romance Language

400.001 Slavic Language

Fifth Floor: Math and Science

500.006 Astronomy

500.005 Dinosaurs

500.004 Botany

500.003 Zoology

500.002 Geology

500.001 Mathematics

Sixth Floor: Technology

600.006 Health & Beauty

600.005 Computers

600.004 Medicine

600.003 Management

600.002 Manufacturing

600.001 Advertising

Seventh Floor: The Arts

700.006 Fashion Design

700.005 Music

700.004 Photography

700.003 Performing Arts

700.002 Paintings

700.001 Architecture

Eighth Floor: Literature

800.006 Mystery

800.005 Fairy Tales

800.004 Dramatic Literature

800.003 Poetry

800.002 Classic Fiction

800.001 Erotic Literature

Ninth Floor: History

900.006 Biography

900.005 Geography & Travel

900.004 Asian History

900.003 Oceanography

900.002 Ancient History

900.001 20th Century History

Tenth Floor: General Knowledge

1000.006 New Media

1000.005 Journalism

1000.004 Museums

1000.003 Encyclopedic Works

1000.002 Almanacs

1000.001 Libraries

Eleventh Floor: Philosophy

1100.006 Love

1100.005 Paranormal

1100.004 Psychology

1100.003 Philosophy

1100.002 Ethics

1100.001 Logic

Twelfth Floor: Religion

1200.006 Mythology

1200.005 Native American Religion

1200.004 Germanic Religion

1200.003 New Age

1200.002 African Religion

1200.001 Eastern Religion

References [ edit ]

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