WDYTYA is fond of showing their featured personalities donning white gloves to handle original materials. It's good television I suppose. But it isn't necessarily good archival practice. That's according to information from the University of Reading and the British Library referenced at http://reclamationandrepresentation.blogspot.ca/2013/09/archives-and-white-gloves-myth.html
Knowing this probably won't help when you encounter a worker bee employee at an archives paid and required to follow the institutions protocol rather than think.
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It's not just the BL and Reading University. Did you see this recent post on The National Archives blog? http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/the-gloves-are-off/
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