Donna Benjamin

What does a Business Analyst do?

I recently passed a milestone in the journey of my career. I've now spent over two years as a formal "Business Analyst" or "BA" here at Catalyst IT. In actuality, I've been a...

Alex Buckley

Why Catalyst is a great place to start your career as a new tech graduate

Starting out as a full-time employee in the tech industry is an exciting transition for anyone, the old certainties of study life are swept aside and in their place, you must...

Brooke Penny

Open Source Academy student to Catalyst employee: Liam Sharpe

I caught up with Liam, one of our front-end developers, about his experience going from an Open Source Academy student to a Catalyst employee. 

What year...

Alex Buckley

Koha tips and tricks

Koha is a Library Management System used worldwide by approximately 15,000 libraries. The Koha team at Catalyst are passionate about using Koha and helping libraries (big and...

Brooke Penny

Open Source Academy student to Catalyst employee: Aleisha Amohia

I caught up with Aleisha, one of our Koha Developers, about her experience going from an Open Source Academy student to a Catalyst employee. 

What year was it when...

Brooke Penny

Open Source Academy student to Catalyst employee: Priya Patel

I caught up with Priya, one of our eLearning Consultant, about her experience going from an Open Source Academy student to a Catalyst employee. 

What year...

Catalyst

The perfect place to start as a woman in tech – the Catalyst Academy

by Aleisha Amohia

The last thing a young woman expects when she’s walking into a technology-related course or workshop, is to be in a majority group. This was...

Olivia Christie

Why world's largest radio telescope is an opportunity for NZ

The NZ SKA forum took place recently at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).

This four-day event brought together a wide variety of national and international...

Jess Freeman

Round the Bays 2018 - lessons learnt

I'll be honest, enrolling and organising a fun run for colleagues, sounded like anything but 'fun'. How does the words fun and run even go together? I suspect using the tag “...

Kathryn Tyree

Open values at VALA2018

Around about now I should start emailing you to say, “come and talk to Catalyst about your library technology plans! Visit me at Stand 44 at #Vala2018!” right? Well, yes,...

Donna Benjamin

An introduction to Inkscape for absolute beginners

Image credits : John Morgan on Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Inkscape is a powerful, open source desktop application for creating two-dimensional scalable vector...

Donna Benjamin

Congratulations Brimbank Libraries! Welcome to the Koha Community.

Late last year, Brimbank Libraries undertook a major upgrade to their library software system. With the support of Catalyst IT, Brimbank replaced their 20 year old library...