Library Hotel is a 60-room

boutique hotel Boutique hotels are small-capacity Hotel, hotels that provide more personalized service than typical hotels. They typically have fewer than a hundred rooms, and are considered more "trendy" and "intimate", often due to their location in urban ar ...

Midtown Manhattan Midtown Manhattan is the central portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan, serving as the city's primary central business district. Midtown is home to some of the city's most prominent buildings, including the Empire State Building, the ...

, New York City.Library Hotel website
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(at 41st Street), near

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, the

New York Public Library Main Branch The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (commonly known as the Main Branch, the 42nd Street Library, or just the New York Public Library) is the flagship building in the New York Public Library system in the Midtown Manhattan, Midtown neighborhood ...

, and

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. The hotel was designed by architect Stephen B. Jacobs. Each of the Library Hotel's ten guest floors is themed after a major category of the

Dewey Decimal Classification The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) (pronounced ) colloquially known as the Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system which allows new books to be added to a library in their appropriate location based on subject. ...

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

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(Room 500.001) or

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(Room 500.004). Dewey categories 000, 100, and 200 are placed on the 10th, 11th, and 12th floors, respectively. There are 50–100 books and decorations in each room that accompany the theme, for a total of 6,000 books throughout the hotel. Due to this classification scheme, the hotel owners were sued in 2003 by

OCLC OCLC, Inc. See also: is an American nonprofit cooperative organization "that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for its membership and the library community at large". It was founded in 1967 as the ...

(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. The Library Hotel was once actively operated by Henry Kallan through a

Limited liability limited partnership The limited liability limited partnership (LLLP) is a relatively new modification of the limited partnership. The LLLP form of business entity is recognized under United States commercial law. An LLLP is a limited partnership A limited part ...

. With the 2025

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& investments by multiple private investors within

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, Library Hotel Collection transitioned into a

Limited Liability Company A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company. It is a business structure that can combine the pass-through taxation of a partnership or sole proprietorship with the limited liability of ...

with Henry's minority ownership stake towards Joyful Heart Foundation, a non-profit to heal & empower women. With a new 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.

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