Welcome to St. George’s International School Library!

Key resources

Reading & research

Destiny Discover: Integrated search of multiple sources (library catalog, websites, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and more). Login required.

Sora: Ebook and audiobooks. From the Swiss Group of International Schools landing page, choose St. George’s, then login with school email and password.

Encyclopaedia Britannica School: St. George’s subscription – login required from this link.

NoodleTools: Citation and research tool. Login with school email & school password.

Scholarly literature

Gale Schools: St. George’s subscription to Gale General Onefile, Gale High School Edition, Gale News, and Gale Ebooks databases.

London Library: St. George’s subscription to 43 databases, including JSTOR – login details required.

BCU Lausanne: Search university catalog (membership required; on-site access only).

Current events

The Day: St. George’s subscription to news and current issues for all students (5 reading levels).

Recommendations

Summer Reading Recommendations 2022

Summer Reading Recommendations 2021

Summer Reading Recommendations 2020

Summer Reading Recommendations 2019

Summer Reading Recommendations 2018

Papercut

To install the school printer on your device:

Make sure you are on the SGI-Wifi network.
Click on this link and choose your operating system.
Download Mobility Print Installer, open it, and follow the directions.
Enter the user name and password for your device (OR use your fingerprint).

To print a document:

Open your document and select “Print.”
Choose “Stgeorges Printer.”
Username is your school email address; password is your school password.
Tick “Remember” – then you never have to enter your details again.
Click submit.
Go to the printer and enter your Papercut login number. (If you forgot it, ask librarian.)
Select “Print.”

Free digital libraries

Epic: E-books, audiobooks, read-to-me books, and more in several languages for children up to age 12. Free access with class code M-F, 8h to 16h.

Open Library: Access to millions of e-books and audiobooks. Create a free account.

Project Gutenburg: 60,000 free e-books.

ICDL: The International Children’s Digital Library offers free access to ebooks in 50+ languages.

Storyweaver: Read, listen to, translate, and create ebooks in a huge range of languages.

Library News

Numbers

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Numbers”:

Senior: Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics; Professor Povey’s Perplexiing Problems; College Mathematics Through Baseball; Statistics and Probability; Applying Geometry to Everyday Life; The History of Mathematics

Middle: The Scale of Things; The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl; Once; All Thirteen; The Maths Handbook; Deadly 7

Junior: Secret Coders; At the Bottom of the World; 50 Amazing Things Kids Need to Know About Maths; Think of a Number; Mathmagicians; If: A Mind-Bending Way of Looking at Big Ideas & Numbers

November 25th, 2022|

Around the World

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Around the World”:

Senior: The State of Africa; Down Under; The Penguin History of Modern Russia; A Concise History of Germany; The Spanish Civil War; A Concise History of Italy

Middle: Hola, Venezuela; Life and Culture in the United States and Canada; The Netherlands; Portugal; Denmark; Countries of the World

Junior: Allalam-o-Alaikum, Pakistan; Ola, Brazil; Konnichiwa, Japan; Kumusta, Philippines; Namaste, India; Hola, Mexico

November 18th, 2022|

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