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Re: the gloves are off????



 
Val,
 
You could get around the majority of the glove issues by iamging your archival collection and making it available online. The number of onsite visitors would go down and as a result the gloves and their potential problems would be reduced. As for published materials on imaging records, there is a ton of stuff out there. 
 
Chris Flynn  

I recently had a discussion with a patron about the use of gloves at other repositories he had visited recently.  He said that he had been to the National Archives and had worn latex gloves to look at archival materials rather than cotton gloves.  He said that "they" have found that cotton gloves contribute to more damage to documents by leaving fibers and the latex gloves allow patrons to handle documents with more care, cutting down on paper damage.

Have any of you changed your policy on wearing gloves?  And if so, is there any published research concerning a move away from cotton gloves?

Thanks,

Val



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