{"id":38529,"date":"2025-04-11T11:28:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/mississippi-orders-deletion-of-race-and-gender-databases-in-state-libraries\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T11:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:28:30","slug":"mississippi-orders-deletion-of-race-and-gender-databases-in-state-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/mississippi-orders-deletion-of-race-and-gender-databases-in-state-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi orders deletion of race and gender databases in state libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Library commission says state \u2018in dire shape\u2019 and has \u2018had a reconsideration of everything with regard to\u2019 Doge<\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi library commission, which offers services such as specialized research assistance to libraries in the state, has ordered the deletion of two research collections: the race relations database and the gender studies database. The collections were stored in what\u2019s called the Magnolia database, which is used by publicly funded schools, libraries, universities and state agencies in Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>The commission\u2019s executive director, Hulen Bivins, confirmed the deletion to the Guardian, and said: \u201cWe may lose a lot of materials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/11\/mississippi-libraries-race-gender-databases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Library commission says state \u2018in dire shape\u2019 and has \u2018had a reconsideration of everything with regard to\u2019 Doge The Mississippi library commission, which offers services such as specialized research assistance to libraries in the state, has ordered the deletion of two research collections: the race relations database and the gender studies database. The collections were &#8230; <a title=\"Mississippi orders deletion of race and gender databases in state libraries\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/mississippi-orders-deletion-of-race-and-gender-databases-in-state-libraries\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mississippi orders deletion of race and gender databases in state libraries\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}