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.

PressReader: Thousands of newspapers and magazines in digital format. ‘Sign in’ > ‘Library or Group’ > ‘St George’s’ > school email address.

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 SG-Students 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

Music

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

Senior: The Haters; The Heartbreakers; Symphony for the City of the Dead; Jazz Singing; Are Graphic Music Lyrics Harmful?; Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and its Cultural Connotations

Middle: Solo; Operatic; Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie; In the Key of Code; The History of Music; Music: Techniques, Styles, Instruments, and Practice

Junior: Trombone Shorty; Eugenia Lincoln and the Unexpected Package; Musicians: Celebrating the lives of inspirational people in black history; Lin-Manuel Miranda; Introduction to Music; Thea Stilton and the Phantom of the Orchestra

March 17th, 2023|

History

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

Senior: Daily Life During the French Revolution; Historical Revisionism; The Arab-Israeli Conflict; A History of the World in 100 Objects; Russian Revolution of 1917; Defining Documents in World History: Ancient World (2700 B.C.E.-c.500 C.E.)

Middle: The Split History of World War I; Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution; Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution; Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift’s “Chocolate Pilot”; The Red Baron; Women in the Renaissance

Junior: Ancient Roman Technology; Guts & Glory: The Vikings; African Icons; Stone Age; The Story of Tutankhamun; Native Americans

March 10th, 2023|

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