Library Technology Guides

Auckland University of Technology and Catalyst celebrate the Koha Project go-live. The Catalyst Koha team is excited to announce that Auckland University of Technology has officially gone live with the Koha Library Management System. AUT is the first university from New Zealand or Australia to implement Koha. [Full Announcement].

Auckland University of Technology choose Koha Library System. Catalyst is delighted to announce that Auckland University of Technology will soon become the first University in New Zealand and Australia to implement Koha Library Management System. [Full Announcement].

Auckland University of Technology choose Koha Library System. Catalyst announced that Auckland University of Technology will soon become the first University in New Zealand and Australia to implement Koha Library Management System. [Full Announcement].

Mental Health Education & Resource Library now offers online self-registration. Like many libraries across New Zealand, the Mental Health Education & Resource Centre Library (MHERC) adapted its services in response to COVID-19 related events. For Sheree Menzies, IT/Resources at MHERC, this meant allowing new borrowers to sign-up online for the first time ever. [Full Announcement].

Koha expands in Australasia. Catalyst has purchased Calyx Information Essentials and, from 1 March 2020, Catalyst will be providing Hosting and Support for their Australian clients using the Koha Library Management System. [Full Announcement].

New Library System for Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology. Toi Ohomai library is now live with the Koha library system, supported by Catalyst IT. Students and staff who search for library resources now have a single library catalogue that replaces the two separate systems that previously operated from the Tauranga and Rotorua campuses. Liberty was used at the Mokoia campus for 20 years, and Voyager at Tauranga campuses for 14 years. [Full Announcement].

NZ's newest Koha public library: Whanganui District Libraries. Whanganui Library was the first public library of New Zealand to quietly leave the Kōtui consortium in 2017. In March they put out an RFP for a new Library Management System, to which we responded proposing Koha. We worked together seamlessly for two months solid, and with the timely delivery of data overnight from Sirsi Dynix in the USA, Koha went live without a hitch in June. [Full Announcement].

Koha plus FOLIO: a solution for connected library services. Catalyst and Bywater Solutions are both vendors for Koha library management system. We have worked together in the Koha community for 8 years. Both companies support a number of academic libraries (universities, polytechnics, TAFEs, colleges) and are investigating how FOLIO can be of benefit to our customers, with an initial focus on academic libraries.This paper will explain how Koha and FOLIO can work together to benefit libraries. It will also set out specifications for some ways Koha could connect to FOLIO, and therefore enhance library services. [Full Announcement].

Te Horowhenua Trust wins Koha case. Te Horowhenua Trust and Catalyst IT challenged a ruling in New Zealand by the Ministry of Economic Development in 2011 that American company Liblime PTFS which had acquired the Koha division of Katipo and was also a contributor to the software, could trademark Koha. In a 24-page judgment assistant commissioner of Trade Marks Jennie Walden found that Liblime’s product and the trust’s software were largely the same, except that the trust’s was free. Ms Walden also awarded of $3820 to the Trust and $3550 to Catalyst IT. [Full Announcement].

Catalyst announces the release of the NIWA Koha catalogue. Catalyst announced the release of the NIWA Koha catalogue. NIWA, the NZ National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, and Catalyst, have been working together over the past four months to migrate the NIWA library data from SirsiDynix Symphony, and to implement and configure the open source library management system Koha to NIWA's requirements. [Full Announcement].

Waimate District Libraries goes live with Koha. Waimate District Libraries joined more than twenty other New Zealand libraries this week when they went live with Koha, the Open Source Library Management System originally developed in New Zealand. [Full Announcement].