- "Library Hotel " reads the unassuming lower-case script.
- The RWB bought the New Library Hotel site from The Johannesburg Balmoral Hotel ( Pty ) Ltd for R195, 000.
- A visitor to New York with literary affinities might find congenial surroundings at the Library Hotel at the corner of 41st Street and Madison Avenue.
- In 2003, the Dewey Decimal Classification came to national attention when OCLC sued the Library Hotel for trademark infringement for using the classification system as the hotel theme.
- The idea of a library hotel originated with Henry Kallan, who owns several other New York properties, such as the Moroccan-themed Casablanca Hotel and the chic Hotel Giraffe.
- "Library Hotel " reads the unassuming lower-case script, arranged beneath a simple icon that, upon close inspection, represents the splayed pages of an open book.
- The Library Hotel's developer, Henry Kallan, said he was undertaking the $ 10 million restoration largely because Grand Central is about to become a mecca for tourists as well as visitors on business.
- The Library Hotel, which overlooks the New York Public Library, is divided according to the classification system, with each floor dedicated to one of Dewey's 10 categories and individual rooms to subcategories.
- "We do not believe that our guests or other consumers are confused into thinking that the Library Hotel's hospitality services and the OCLC's information services come from the same source,"
- Craig Spitzer, general manager of the Library Hotel, said that the theme was the idea of its owner, Henry Kallan, and is based on the hotel's proximity to the famous library on Fifth Avenue.
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