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.

Scholarly literature

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

Questia School: Subscriptions for Year 12s & 13s – login details required.

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

Current events

The Day: St. George’s subscription to news and current issues for Senior and Middle School students.

The Day Explorer: St. George’s subscription to news and current issues for Junior School students.

Recommendations

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-student wifi network.
Click on this link.
Download Mobility Print Installer, open it, and follow the directions.
Enter the user name and password for your device.

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

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

Tolerance

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

Senior: New Boy; The Art of Being Normal; Running Full Tilt; Pride; How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents; Noughts & Crosses

Middle: New Kid; Ella on the Outside; Fish in a Tree; Wonder; Hate Crimes: When Intolerance Turns Violent; Gender Equality and Identity Rights

Junior: The Boy at the Back of the Class; The Book of Boy; Something Else; The Arrival; The Story of Slavery; Equality & Diversity; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Understanding Humanism

September 18th, 2020|

Everyday Heroes

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

Senior: The Tattooist of Auschwitz; To Kill a Mockingbird; Don Quixote; The House of Spirits; Unsung Heroes of World War II; Gandhi: my life is my message

Middle: Chains; Brave; Frederick Douglass; Private Peaceful; Different Like Me; As Brave as You

Junior: The Eleventh Hour; Candy Bomber; Adolphus Tips; Beowulf; Anne Frank; Nacho’s Nachos

September 11th, 2020|

Literacy

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

Senior: Educated; Fahrenheit 451; The Rights of the Reader; I am Malala; The Pooh Perplex; The Book Thief

Middle: Fight to Learn; Fish in a Tree; The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl; Living with Learning Disabilities and Disorders; Support for Education; Knowledge and Education

Junior: Malala Yousafzai: Warrior with Words; Stink: Twice as Incredible; The Boy at the Back of the Class; It’s Called Dyslexia; Study Hall of Justice; Would You Believe… In 1400 Reading could Save Your Life?!

September 7th, 2020|

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