There are gloves available that have PVC "dots" which seem to overcome this problem. We ordered them specifically for our archivist who primarily works with paper. He seems to like them. SF Gray Executive Director 390th Memorial Museum Foundation www.390th.org Leonard Will wrote: > Is there not a problem, though, that wearing gloves makes your fingers > less sensitive and your movements less precise? It is more difficult to > pick up a single sheet of paper with gloves on, for example, and the > risk of mechanical damage from wearing them has to be set against the > risk of chemical damage from not wearing them. I'd be interested to know > whether the consensus is that they should always be worn. >