The IAS library
A circulating collection of more than 35,000 English editions, with Polish, German, French and Spanish shelves alongside them.
In a school where most students are working in a second or third language, a library is not decoration. It is where a child who cannot yet argue in English discovers they can still read in it.
The circulating collection runs to more than 35,000 English editions, alongside periodicals and materials for research, homework and essay writing, and digital resources that widen what a student can reach from a desk. The shelves are not English only: there are Polish novels and Polish academic books, and sections in German, French and Spanish.
Books for the year
At the start of each school year students are issued loaner books and workbooks by the IAS Librarian, and return them at the end of it. That is one of the reasons the enrolment fee exists, and it is why a family moving here does not arrive to a booklist and a bill in the first week.
Kept current
An ongoing exchange with the faculty keeps the collection matched to what is being taught now. A teacher who changes a set text can say so and the library follows, which is a small thing that stops a collection quietly ageing into irrelevance.
Working there
Computer facilities and internet access sit alongside the shelves, so students can find, use and cite what they need in one place. For an Extended Essay or a first research paper, that matters more than the size of the collection.
On the shelves
Dictionaries and encyclopedias. English books, reference and novels. Geography, history, science and mathematics. German, French and Spanish. Computers. Polish, Polish novels and Polish academic books. Sports and guides. Children’s books, cooking and gardening.
Every age
From a first picture book to a final research paper.
The library serves every stage of the school. Come and see it on a normal school day.
