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2025
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18291319 |
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- <p>The reflective report documents Dr. Rhonda Jones’s participation in the 2025 Stellenbosch International Academic Networks (SIAN) Conference and her professional visit to Stellenbosch University’s main library and special collections.</p> <p>The report details institutional efforts at Stellenbosch University to confront its apartheid-era legacy through initiatives such as the Visual Redress Project, curriculum reform, multilingual policies, and the establishment of the Equality Unit, alongside a formal apology issued in 2022. Dr. Jones critically notes that while these measures are symbolically significant, students of color continue to experience marginalization, underscoring the ongoing and contested nature of transformation.</p> <p>The report then shifts to a detailed professional analysis of Stellenbosch University Library Systems, highlighting its branch structure, instructional services, SUNSearch discovery platform, and SUNScholarData institutional repository. Particular attention is given to the MakerSpace, Carnegie Research Commons, and Special Collections. Dr. Jones describes the MakerSpace as a technologically advanced, inclusive environment that fosters interdisciplinary learning and entrepreneurial practice, while the Research Commons is portrayed as a dedicated infrastructure for postgraduate scholarship. In Special Collections, her dialogue with archivist Busi Mofu frames South African archival practice within broader debates on power, decolonization, and memory, drawing parallels with the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in South Africa and Greensboro.</p>