About the Library

The Inquiry Collaborative: Where Learning Meets Collaboration

The Inquiry Collaborative is a vital part of the academic program at Cate School.

Cate’s new academic hub, the Inquiry Collaborative, features the Mesa’s first makerspace, a ceramics studio, digital arts lab, computational thinking classroom, and more. New classrooms, patios, and a reimagined library engage students throughout the day. The expansive space provides access to flexible or quiet study spaces alongside student service offices.

At Cate, we help students become effective users of ideas and information and acquire lifelong patterns of independent learning. We are dedicated to building a collection made up of accurate, up-to-date materials that represent a balanced point of view, to making the collection meet the requirements of all curricular areas, and to meeting the wide-ranging recreational and cultural needs of the school and boarding community. The Wyckoff Library, located within the Inquiry Collaborative, is our main library, now housing thousands of volumes of books, periodicals, and digital content. Hundreds of thousands of full-text books, magazines, and newspapers are available digitally through the library’s many online databases. All floors of the library are equipped with WiFi and the space is built with the intention of encouraging collaborative, quiet study.

Some of the other services we provide include:

• Research Skills Courses
• Personal Research Assistance
• One-to-One Faculty Course Liaisons
• Student Librarian Program, including the Student Book Club
• Interlibrary Loans
• Reserve Textbooks
• Maker Tools and Activities