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Re: Reasons to use gloves



I must say I've found this discussion most enlightening.  I am admittedly
*very* new to this profession, and my familiarity with archives (I currently
work in a museum) has always been as a historian and researcher, and gloves
were required.  I wonder, is the practice of requiring researchers to use
gloves because it's assumed they aren't trained or knowledgeable in the area
and, as such, don't take seriously the need for really clean hands (meaning
*clean* i.e. no hand lotions, etc.)?  Or is it more out of habit since
Archives is closely related to Musuem work, as Cathrine Bruck suggests.

Interestingly enough, the museum director (an administrator, not a museum
professional, per se, but very good for the museum nonetheless) is even more
paranoid about hand oils and using gloves on the rare occasions he handles
at papers, etc, than am I.

Tom Anderson; Collections
American Museum of Science and Energy
300 S. Tulane
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
(865) 576-3228 (Voice), (865) 576-6024 (Fax)

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