ABOUT MICHAEL JOHN CENTRE LIBRARY
MICHAEL JOHN CENTRE LIBRARY OF TATA WORKERS UNION
Established in 1987, The Michael John Centre Library is considered as one of the model Libraries in Jamshedpur, particularly pertaining to the Trade Union movement and allied subject. Keen interest has been evinced by students in different fields of activity, who are regular readers of books and magazines. Number of books have been lent to students in the inter college level, to help them appear at the Entrance Examinations.
As you enter this Library and Reading Room you will share the patriotic sense that inspired such great personalities like, S. N. Halder, C. F. Andrews, NetajiSubash Chandra Bose, Prof. Abdul Bari, Michael John and V. G. Gopal who presided over the destinies of Tata Workers Union.
- As you enter this Library and Reading Room you will share the patriotic sense that inspired such great personalities like, S. N. Halder, C. F. Andrews, NetajiSubash Chandra Bose, Prof. Abdul Bari, Michael John and V. G. Gopal who presided over the destinies of Tata Workers Union.
- Various other exhibits preserved and well maintained in the glass covered shelves give a lot of knowledge pertaining to our Trade Union Management.
- Tata Workers' Union Library has collection on above 17,000 books on a variety of subjects particularly on trade union, industrial relation, safety, health & hygiene and personal management, text book for school and colleges student appearing for entrance examination as well as books on computer science general knowledge, spiritual knowledge are also available in the Library. Reference Books, bibliographies, auto biograph and classic work form an integral part of the library. The collection includes quite a few religious books and books of philosophy as well.
- A large collection of journals on labour laws and various supreme court judgments are maintained in the library for reference.
- A magazine corner for display for local and foreign journals collected from various Trade Unions and other institutions is added to the library.
- Separate reading room having 20 (Nos.) of news papers in both English and Hindi and a number of journals and magazines from India and catering to the literary tastes of all kinds of readers are available in the reading room.
- There is also a class room cum reading room which is used by the student of employees children. An important file containing press clippings maintained in the library of immense reference value. There is a collection of about 2000 works on different topics specially related to the welfare of the workers, biographical sketches related to steel, automobile science and technology are also maintained in the library.
- There is an archive consisting the Historical Agreement of 1956 between Management and Tata Workers Union and other agreements, which is of greater importance in preservation of monumental records such as the visit of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr.Rajendra Prasad in 1925 and the visit of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr.Rajendra Prasad in 1939. Lecture delivered by the recipients of Michael John Memorial Gold Medals are also available. 620 Number of books have been added in the year 2017-18 in the field of science and technology, general knowledge, literature book, reference book, text book for school, college students appearing in entrance examination.
- The information centre is maintained by qualified and experienced librarian Mr P K Hota.