The Chalfonts Learning Resource Centre
The Chalfonts Learning Resource Centre is the learning hub of our community. To view the catalogue of books available onsite at The Chalfonts, follow the Librarika link below. We subscribe to the School Library Service with Buckinghamshire Libraries, so if we do not have the book you are looking for onsite, please see a staff member and we can request the resource for you. As an IB world school, we value reading widely. For ideas from many perspectives and contexts, explore some of the links below.
Online Resources
Librarika
Librarika is the online catalogue of books onsite at The Chalfonts Learning Resource Centre
TED
TED talks are unique talks by a variety of people on a multitude of topics. Watch one today and be inspired!
UN iLibrary
The United Nations iLibrary is the first comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations.
Big Think
The ‘big think’ is a newsletter that discusses big ideas and new developments in science, business, politics.
Open Humanities Press
Open Humanities Press is an international community of scholars, editors and readers who promote open access scholarship about culture and inquiry.
openDemocracy
openDemocracy is an independent global media platform publishing up to 60 articles a week Through reporting and analysis of social and political issues, openDemocracy seeks to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world. With human rights as our central guiding focus, we ask tough questions about freedom, justice and democracy.
The British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and findmypast to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library’s vast collection.
Linguascope
The world’s number 1 interactive language learning platform for schools. See your language acquisition teacher for your login details.
Citefast
Citefast is an online referencing and bibliography generator.
