Indigenising official referencing style guides: An Indigenous Australian Case Study

Globally, Indigenous communities are increasingly asserting their agency within academia, advocating for the recognition and integration of Indigenous knowledge paradigms alongside western knowledge systems. Indigenous research methodologies, often relational in nature, provide Indigenous researchers with the mechanisms to advance and contribute to this growing body of collective knowledge. In this paper presentation, we explore the case study of an Australian academic library that has Indigenized university processes associated with citational attribution in research. This case study examines strategies, challenges, and best practice exemplars that empower and support its academic communities to respectfully acknowledge both Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous knowledge holders’ contributions to research. It is hoped this paper presentation will contribute to the ongoing dialogue of Indigenisation in Aotearoa New Zealand academic libraries, and the wider academic setting, that empowers and acknowledges self-determination of Indigenous communities. This paper aligns to the theme of Ōritetanga – Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and discusses the embedding of Indigenous knowledge systems into university practice.