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{{short description|Hotel in Manhattan, New York}}
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[[File:Library Hotel 41st St jeh.jpg|thumb|The hotel's front entrance]]
[[File:Library Hotel e41 st jeh.jpg|thumb|View toward the hotel]]
'''Library Hotel''' is a 60-room [[boutique hotel]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]], New York City.<ref name=LHC>[https://libraryhotel.com/ Library Hotel website]</ref> It is located at 299 [[Madison Avenue]] (at 41st Street), near [[Bryant Park]], the [[New York Public Library Main Branch]], and [[Grand Central Terminal]]. The hotel was designed by architect Stephen B. Jacobs.<ref name="I Love">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ilovelibraries.org/article/library-hotel|title=The Library Hotel|website=[[I Love Libraries]]|access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref>

Each of the Library Hotel's ten guest floors is themed after a major category of the [[Dewey Decimal Classification]]. The 5th floor, for example, is the 500s (the Sciences). Each room is 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.<ref name="I Love"/> There are 50–100 books and decorations in each room that accompany the theme, for a total of 6,000 books throughout the hotel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nypost.com/2015/04/01/hey-bookworms-stay-in-this-hotel-inspired-by-the-dewey-decimal-system/|title=Hey, bookworms! Stay in this hotel inspired by the Dewey Decimal System|last=Putnam|first=Lindsay|date=2015-04-01|website=New York Post|language=en|access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref>

Due to this classification scheme, the hotel owners were sued in 2003 by [[OCLC]] (owners of the Dewey Decimal Classification system). OCLC subsequently reached an agreement with the hotel owners, thus enabling the hotel to continue using the Dewey system.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/2/OCC/2010/05/07/H1273247357646/viewer/file581.htm |title=OCLC and The Library Hotel settle trademark complaint |date=2003-11-24 |publisher=OCLC}}</ref>

The Library Hotel was once actively operated by Henry Kallan through a [[Limited liability limited partnership]]. With the 2025 [[reorganization]] & investments by multiple private investors within [[real estate development]], Library Hotel Collection transitioned into a [[Limited Liability Company]] with Henry's minority ownership stake towards [[Joyful Heart Foundation]], a non-profit to heal & empower women. With a new [[Principal (commercial law)|principal]] managing president, his fiduciary responsibility is to manage & oversee the hotel chain, branding & organization, having been appointed & selected by its stakeholders.

Library Hotel Collection includes Manhattan's [[Hotel Giraffe]], [[Hotel Elysée]], Casablanca Hotel, [[Hotel X Toronto]].<ref name=LHC/>