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Re: Reasons to use gloves



Date:    Mon, 14 May 2001 08:59:25 -0500
From:    Carole Prietto <Carole-Prietto@LIBRARY.WUSTL.EDU>
Subject: Re: Reasons to use gloves

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Erin Foley wrote:

> I have an ongoing problem convincing people to use gloves in my archives.
> Not the genealogists--they are only too happy to do whatever they need to
> have access to materials about their relatives.  My problem is with two
> important individuals, one a curator of a prints collection, the other a
> museum director, who have refused to wear gloves.

Do they also refuse to wash their hands?

In the case of fragile paper materials, scrupulously clean hands is
infinitely preferable to cotton gloves.

Dorothy Blunt
Paper Conservator
Florida State Archives

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