Reconsidering Technical Labor in Information Institutions: The Case of Analog Video Digitization
Zack Lischer-Katz
Library Trends, Volume 68, Number 2, Fall 2019, pp. 213-251 (Article)

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746746/pdf?fbclid=IwAR3MIKRogQmLSLkIDxFIqzbmndnqWNXoUePHqc3NCmilyFm-YJT0sBWSdRI

empirical study conducted by the author from 2015–2017 that used qualitative-interpretive methods to study the discursive and material practices of professional media preservationists as they worked to digitize analog video recordings in small-scale, high-quality (“artisanal”) digitization projects

p. 215 Furthermore, understanding technical work in li-braries can contribute to ongoing debates in information studies and the digital humanities on the relationship between “doing” and “signifying” in terms of scholarly production (Cecire 2011)