Library Hotel by Library Hotel Collection is a 60-room

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, located at 299

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(at 41st Street), near the

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Bryant Park Bryant Park is a public park located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Privately managed, it is located between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas ( Sixth Avenue) and between 40th and 42nd Streets in Midtown Manhattan. The e ...

, and

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. 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

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(the 5th floor, for example, is the 500s, the Sciences), with each room as a subcategory or genre, such as

Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

(Room 500.001) or

Botany Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek w ...

(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 Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of eros (passionate, romantic or sexual relationships) intended to arouse similar feelings in readers. This contrasts erotica, which focuses more specifically on sexual feelin ...

(Room 800.001),

Poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

(Room 800.003), and

Music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

(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

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(owners of the Dewey Decimal Classification system). OCLC reached an agreement with the hotel enabling the hotel to continue using the Dewey system. The Library Hotel is owned and operated by Henry Kallan, whose Library Hotel Collection includes Manhattan's Casablanca Hotel, Hotel Giraffe and Hotel Elysee.

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Social Sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soci ...

*300.006 Law *300.005 Money *300.004 World Culture *300.003 Economics *300.002 Political Science *300.001 Communication Fourth Floor:

Language Language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary. Languages are the primary means by which humans communicate, and may be conveyed through a variety of met ...

*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

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