One thing I found a bit hard to take was the casual way in which they handled some of the recordings. I had to go back to the tape to verify the fact that the guy was actually touching the surface of the Woody Guthrie recording without gloves. Also when they went to put a recording on the turntable, the fellow (I could go back and get names, but that isn't the point) gripped the disc by the very edge, again with bare hands, or I should say hand, since that is all he was holding it by. That's hardly the attention to safe handling practices that I would expect at the LOC.
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