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

Space

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

Senior: Brief Answers to the Big Questions; Seven Brief Lessons on Physics; Reality is Not What it Seems; Laboratory Experiments in Physics for Modern Astronomy; Commercial Space Exploration

Middle: George and the Ship of Time; Space, Stars and Slimy Monsters; The Girl Who Drank the Moon; Smash: Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe with the Large Hadron Collider; Space Boy; Physics: Understanding the Properties of Matter and Energy

Junior: The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon; Cleopatra in Space; Elon Musk; Space Academy; Time & Space; Space Travel

October 9th, 2020|

Mental Health

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

Senior: Running Full Tilt; Am I Normal Yet?; Eliza and Her Monsters; Blame My Brain; Teens: Cutting and Self-Injury; Psychology

Middle: Ghost; Patina; Sunny; Understanding Personality Disorders; Phobia: When Fear Becomes Irrational; OCD: The Struggle with Obsessions and Compulsions

Junior: The Dog Who Lost His Bark; Saving Winslow; A Boy Called Bat; Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing; The Dangers of Digital Addiction

October 2nd, 2020|

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