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I am shocked. Absolutely shocked. Shocked to learn Mississippi still has libraries.
Why keep them if no one can read?
I hope someone is backing up these databases and archiving/leaking them. One day it may become possible again to admit that race, gender, and discrimination on their basis, are actual things in the USA to acknowledge and address, not just sweep under the carpet while doubling down on persecution as MAGA Nazis prefer.
Nothing is lost when these databases are deleted from the consortium; this is effectively a cancellation of a subscription from Ebsco. What is being lost is free access to the materials collected in these databases through the Magnolia library system.
Library databases are typically subscription packages containing some combination of full-text content, indexes, or abstracts; the content is usually collected from academic publishers (some of the titles in these databases are published by groups like Johns Hopkins Univeristy Press or Taylor & Francis).
Looks like some of the titles in the Race Relations database titles are part of Academic Search Premier (which Ole Miss subscribes to, which doesn’t help anyone who isn’t a student there).
That said, those subscriptions are expensive and almost impossible to gain access to outside of a library system or research organization… which makes this an asshole move by the state legislature.
Edit: The databases in question are here:
Archiving the original data is important. This is censorship, plain and simple. It's more important than ever to make sure we educate our children and peers about our history instead of whitewashing everything. 10 years from now I'm really hoping these events will be seen as nationalist vitriol
Cool! Now anyone can claim to be white when applying for schools, jobs.
/s