Who are you, and what would you like to do? Indigenising Curtin Library’s services, collections and spaces through relationships, conversations and networks

In this presentation, we share our experiences, successes and failures as we work towards integrating Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing into our Library. We will showcase some of the projects we have been working on (cultural warnings in collections, networking events with Indigenous and Library staff, a conference for Indigenous research students, Indigenous authors tags in our reading lists…), and share what has gone well and what has gone wrong. We will discuss how we have approached these tasks, but more importantly, also share who we are as people, why we started this work, and how we have collaborated with Indigenous colleagues. Some of our projects were filling obvious gaps, but we will also highlight the importance of celebrating how Indigenous staff and students have enriched, and will continue to enrich our collections, services and spaces. We only just got started, are still learning, still making mistakes, but also still making our way towards truth telling and Reconciliation. Curtin Library is on Nyoongar land, where people have collected knowledge, kept it safe and made it accessible, and practised learning and teaching for thousands of years. Let’s talk about what that means to us - and what it means to you, to who you are and where you want to go in your Library.