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.

PressReader: Thousands of newspapers and magazines in digital format. ‘Sign in’ > ‘Library or Group’ > ‘St George’s’ > school email address.

Encyclopaedia Britannica School: St. George’s subscription – login required from this link.

NoodleTools: Citation and research tool. Login with school email & school password.

Massolit: Video lectures in 14 IGCSE and IB subjects

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).

Papercut

To install the school printer on your device:

You must be on the SGI-Students Wi-Fi network.
Windows: click on this link > Download the Papercut Printer App > “Next” > “Finish”
Mac: click on this link > Download the Papercut Printer App > double click on the App > “Continue” > “Ok” > “Close”
Authentication: school email > school password > “Log in and add printer”
Close the window notifying you that the printer is installed.

To print a document:

Open your document > “Print”
Printer: “PapercutSG [St Georges School](Mobility)” > “Print”
Enter your NEW 5-digit Papercut login code on the printer touch screen (sent to your school email). > “Print”

For more detailed instructions, download this file.

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.

Recommendations

Summer Reading Recommendations 2023

Summer Reading Recommendations 2022

Summer Reading Recommendations 2021

Summer Reading Recommendations 2020

Summer Reading Recommendations 2019

Summer Reading Recommendations 2018

Library News

Poetry

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

Senior: I Don’t Want to be Crazy; Moonrise; The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson; The Poet X; Hope for the Flowers; Poems on the Underground

Middle: Cloud Busting; Rebound; Booked; Alone; Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats; Tales of Death and Dementia

Junior: Songs and Verse; Lost Magic; Pip; The Usborne Book of Poetry; Story Poems; A Family of Poems

January 12th, 2024|

Conflict

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

Senior: The Great War For Civilisation; The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine; Savage Continent; Revolution! Writings from Russia 1917; Me Against My Brother; The Bay of Pigs and teh Cuban Missile Crisis

Middle: Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution; Religion and World Conflict; The Red Baron; Grenade; The Night Diary; The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Junior: The Button War; In the Mouth of the Wolf; The Queen’s Pirate; Roman Soldier’s Handbook; The Story of the First War; Knights and Armour

December 15th, 2023|

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