Catalyst blog

Everything Open 2025: The balance between open and trust

Aleisha Amohia, Technical Lead – Rōpū kohinga at Catalyst, shares insights from the Everything Open conference, held in Tarntanya (Adelaide), South Australia in January 2025.

Single Sign-On for Koha 2025

Learn how to set up single sign on in Koha using local login, OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, SAML, LDAP, REST APIs, and 2FA.

Customising your Koha catalogue 2025

Discover how as a Koha administrative user you can customise your Koha catalogue for your users.

How to choose the best library management software 2025

In this guide, Rōpū kohinga outlines key considerations for choosing the library management software that works for you.

Caring for collections in 2025

Alex Buckley, Rōpū kohinga developer at Catalyst, shares the flexibility of solutions like Koha, DSpace, and VuFind and how they can care for collections.

Release of Koha 24.11

Alex Buckley, Rōpū kohinga developer shares 16 new enhancements in the latest release of Koha 24.11.

KohaCon24: The power of collaboration in the GLAMR sector

Dive into insights on the power of collaboration in the GLAMR sector and how events like KohaCon24 enable meaningful collaboration.

The Kolovai Library: a real treasure to Tonga

Learn how the first public library in Tonga has grown in the last five years using Koha library management system.

A future-proof solution for your library’s collection

Discover how a values-based approach to caring for a collection sets your library up for long-term success.

Release of Koha 24.05

Catalyst Rōpū kohinga is delighted to join the Koha community in celebrating the release of Koha 24.05. This release contains 9 new features, 239 enhancements, and 529 bug and security fixes.

How to use Australian Indigenous languages in your Koha

The Australian Indigenous languages plugin for Koha was developed with sponsorship by the Education Services Australia Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) team.

How to email Koha patrons using the patron emailer

In this blog post, Rōpū kohinga senior developer Alex Buckley covers two patron emailer implementation options and advises how to choose the right one for your library.

Preserving Indigenous collections with modern technology

Aleisha Amohia (Te Atihaunui a Paparangi, Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Hāua, Cambodia, India) covers what to consider when holding Indigenous data, and open source solutions you can use to preserve Indigenous collections.

Kanohi-ki-te-kanohi with the Koha Community

In February 2024, the Koha community gathered at regional events in Auckland and Wellington. Check out the highlights shared by Rōpū kohinga.

Koha 2FA (two-factor authentication)

This blog will provide an overview of what 2FA (two-factor authentication) in Koha is and how you can improve your Koha security.

Koha user groups 2024

Koha user groups are when the Koha community can come together to learn about Koha, open source, and libraries. At Catalyst, Rōpū kohinga has three in-person user groups for the start of 2024.

Release of Koha 23.11

Catalyst Rōpū kohinga is delighted to join the Koha community in celebrating the release of Koha 23.11. This release contains 10 new features, 330 enhancements, and 573 bug and security fixes.

3 easy ways to improve web accessibility in Koha

How to improve UX for screen reader users.