Thank you, everyone, for the additional information about Plastiklips!  Truthfully, I have only used them as temporary fasteners during our cursory inventory ...placing them on a few unprocessed documents that had rusty paperclips on them.  When documents are  processed, folders and sleeves are utilized. 
 
Regarding bulk-purchased acid-free paper:  from what I understand items bought from suppliers that do not specialize in archival care cannot be fully trusted.  Items may have been "acid-free" on the day they were manufactured, but the long-term acid-free nature and, therefore, speed with which the PH may be altered is not guaranteed.  There are no standards set for marking an item "acid-free" outside the realm of the archival-products market.


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