Wouldn't "driving gloves" be practical for filing? I haven't tried them 
for filing, but they make it possible
for someone wearing them to handle very thin objects, such as coins and 
plastic cards.

I had some student experience in a university special 
collections/archives while working on my M.A.
in History and am very interested in pursuing a career in records 
management via one of the online
programs. In a prior life, I had several years of experience dealing 
with complex paperwork, namely
medical insurance coding, small business taxes, and DoD forms, in a 
variety of jobs.

Elizabeth Whitaker
Alexandria, VA


Patrick Cunningham wrote:
> Archivists tend to use 100% cotton inspection gloves when handling documents. This is primarily to keep skin oils off of documents and photographs, so they tend to be designed to protect the documents from hands, not the other way around. I've never been happy with those gloves because they tend to not fit my hands well and provide very little grip. These are generally the one size fits all, very light weight disposable gloves, however. This website (not specifically recommending, found it with a Google search): http://www.saraglove.com/ has a variety of different gloves, including several weights of cotton gloves. University Products has gloves specifically for archivists: http://www.archivalsuppliers.com/products.asp?dept=142 You may want to try out different types to see what works best for you. Latex gloves are another option, but can be problematic if you have latex allergies. If you get properly sized latex gloves, they will provide you with good
>  grip and decent tactile feel, but you may want to try different types and sizes.
>
>  Patrick Cunningham, CRM
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