Does anyone use white gloves to handle records?

I am not sure there's a right or wrong here. 
I wear white gloves because it  allows me to place a more secure grip on the record by being able to touch more then just the very edge of the record.  This is especially handy when using one hand to hold the record while placing it into a sleeve.

My experience is just the opposite of those above seeing it clumsy to handle a record with gloves.  I have on a couple of occasions dropped a record because of trying to handle it by the edges alone or edge and center hole with bare hands.

Word of caution, once I place the record on the turntable, I immediately remove the gloves prior to doing any cleaning of the record or stylus, so not to take a chance of snagging the stylus/cantilever with a glove.
  I think its a given that the gloves must be clean; wouldn't make a lot of sense to handle a record with soiled hands or soiled gloves.

As far as leaving glove debris or material on the record, I would think it would be removed by the carbon fiber brush or other means you employ to remove dust prior to play.

Handling records with or without gloves both work; I like cotton gloves for the above reasons.






 

@ sleepwalker

Wearing gloves allows me to get a better grip on the record by grasping beyond  the edge a little. Not sure how this contact is any more degrading to the record than the contact of the brush on a record during a wet wash
or the vacuum of a wand as the suction holds it in place creating a bit of friction on the record surface while the record rotates.
When you say you should never grasp a record by the surface, you make it sound like I am handling a piece of bread. This is not the case.  The contact I make is probably not much more then what the average listener makes when pinching a record to start its removal from the sleeve.
 

Records being handled at pressing plant(s)

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http://www.vinyllpcare.com/handling-care


Info outlined below is from the above referenced web site.
Another approach to handling the record while removing or placing in sleeve.


Never touch the vinyl surface with any part of your finger or hand
There are oils on your hand and fingers which will leech into the vinyl and degrade replay. In addition to that, finger prints can only be removed safely from vinyl LPs through professional cleaning as described elsewhere on this site. A good idea and one which we have utilized over 40 years is to cut a small square of clean, soft and non-abrasive white paper. Use this square of paper between your fingers on both edges of the disc when removing and replacing the disc in its inner sleeve or bag. In our experience this has caused no issues whatsoever in over 45 years of collecting, playing and caring for vinyl records.