Library Hotel

The Library Hotel ^[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.

The hotel 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 books and decorations that accompany the theme, with 6000 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.

Room menu

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 Ancient Religion (Mythology)
1200.005 Native American Religion
1200.004 Germanic Religion
1200.003 New Age
1200.002 African Religion
1200.001 Eastern Religion

References

^[3]

↑ Library Hotel Website
↑ OCLC and The Library Hotel settle trademark complaint. 24 November 2003
↑ "The Library Hotel Collections". World Boutique Hotel Awards.

Coordinates: 40°45′7.65″N 73°58′45.87″W / 40.7521250°N 73.9794083°W / 40.7521250; -73.9794083

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