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.

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 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

Language

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

Senior: Empires of the Word: A Language history of the world; Babel: The language magazine; They Say/I Say; Anyalysing Newspapers; Language in Thought and Action; Language, Society & Power

Middle: Japanese Myths, Legends & Folktales (Japanese/English); The Water Dragon (Chinese/English); La Frontera (Spanish/English); Fiery Dogs (Korean/English); Yeh-Hsien: A Chinese Cinderella (Hindi/English); Hansel and Gretel (German/English)

Junior: I See the Sun in Russia (Russian/English); The Pink Dolphin’s Son (Portuguese/English); Five Little Monkeys (Hindi/English); Fox Fables (Swahili/English); The Year of the Monkey (Chinese/English); Moon Rope (Spanish/English)

January 29th, 2021|

The Holocaust

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

Senior: The Tattooist of Auschwitz; The Reader; The Book Thief; Maus; Annexed; Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler: The Nazi Holocaust Masterminds

Middle: I am David; White Bird; The Faithful Spy; The Holocaust: Racism and Genocide in World War II; Then; Waiting for Anya

Junior: Lily Renée: Escape Artist; Number the Stars; The Dollmaker of Krakow; Milkweed; The War I Finally Won; Fighting to Survive World War II; Anne Frank

January 22nd, 2021|

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