The Library Hotel is a 60-room boutique hotel in New York City, located at 299 Madison Avenue , 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 , with each room as a subcategory or genre, such as Mathematics or Botany . Other room themes include Erotic Literature , Poetry , and Music . 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 . OCLC reached an agreement with the hotel enabling the hotel to continue using the Dewey system. OCLC Press Release
Hotel Denouement from Lemony Snicket's The Penultimate Peril was modeled after the Library Hotel.
Room Menu at the Library Hotel
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
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