The ‘glove’ poll has been closed and the results are in. It’s almost neck and neck with nitrile gloves (29%) vs cotton gloves (26%).

Close behind was “Other answer” with comments including:

• clean hands policy, cotton or nitrile gloves when viewing some formats
• When using photos or rare books
• Only when handling photos or metal items
• depends on fragility of material i.e. clean hands in this case otherwise nitrile
• When photos or metal is handled; for paper no gloves are required

It appears that the traditional cotton style has been slowly overtaken by the disposable nitrile variety.

Until the next poll…

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