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.

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

Questia School: Subscriptions for Year 12s & 13s – 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

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

Democracy

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

Senior: Suffragettes: The fight for votes for women; The Democratic Genre: Fan fiction in a literary context; Alexander Hamilton; Politics and Journalism in a Post-truth World; Prisoners of Geography; The Civil Rights Movement

Middle: Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi; All About Frederick Douglas; All About Winston Churchill; All About Benjamin Franklin; Foundations of Democracy: Gender Equality and Identity Rights; Miles to go for Freedom

Junior: The Eleventh Hour; What are we Fighting For?; Benjamin Franklin; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Defining and Discussing Human Rights; Defining and Discussing Women’s Rights

October 30th, 2020|

Spook-tacular

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Spook-tacular”:

Senior: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde; The Phantom of the Opera; The Heart of Darkness; Dracula; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Middle: Serafina and the Black Cloak; Prince of Dorkness; Malice; Skulduggery Pleasant; Frankenstein; Tales of Death and Dementia

Junior: Mutant Zombies Cursed My School Trip; The Midnight Gang; Sam Wu is Not Afraid of Spiders; Looks Like Trouble; Amelia Fang and the Memory Thief; The Peculiar Pumpkin Thief

October 16th, 2020|

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