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.

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 and choose your operating system.
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

Goals

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Goals.”

Senior: Brief Answers to the Big Questions, I Am Malala; How to be a Bawse; The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition; A Long Way Gone; The Audacity of Hope

Middle: Amelia Earhart; Sir Edmund Hillary; 10 Routes that Crossed the World; Ferdinand Magellan Sails around the World; Lives of the Explorers; Making Their Mark

Junior: Breakout Biographies- Michael Phelps; Ibtihaj Muhammad; Emma Watson; Simone Biles; Elon Musk; Misty Copeland

January 3rd, 2021|

Christmas

Check out this week’s recommendations based on the theme “Christmas.” (Ebooks and audiobooks can be accessed by logging in to www.soraapp.com with your school email address and password.)

Senior: What Light (ebook); A Christmas Carol (ebook & audiobook); Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (ebook); Let it Snow (ebook); Snow in Love (ebook); Lost Christmas

Middle: The Bell Bandit (ebook); The Holly Joliday (ebook); Cabin Fever (ebook); A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories; Truce; The Nutcracker

Junior: Merlin Missions: A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time (ebook); Rags and Riches: Kids in the Time of Charles Dickens (ebook); The Polar Express (ebook); A Christmas Carol; Marek and Alice’s Christmas (in Russian & English); Christmas Parade

December 4th, 2020|

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