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

Money, Money, Money!

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Money, Money, Money!”:

Senior: Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy; Naked Economics; The Business Book; Freakanomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything; Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology; Fortune Makers: The Leaders Creating China’s Great Global Companies

Middle: Managing Your Money; Millions; Front Desk; Poverty and Economic Inequality; Money and Trade; The Stuff We Buy

Junior: Show Me the Money; Kate Wolfe Investigates; Treasure Island; D.I.Y. Make it Happen: Bake Sale; Fair Trade & Global Economy; Manchester United: the story behind the iconic business

November 20th, 2020|

Bullying

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

Senior: Capitalism and Moral Responsibility; Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare; Heads Up Psychology; Selp-Helf; Mass Media; Irresistible

Middle: How to Beat Verbal Bullying; How to Beat Psychological Bullying; Positively Teen; The Survival Guide to Bullying; Cyber Bullying; The Tween Book

Junior: The Boy in the Dress; The Angel of Nitshill Road; Little Foxes; The Dog Who Lost His Bark; Cyberbullying; Dealing with Bullying

November 13th, 2020|

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