At the Library of Congress, Jen Sidley manages the robots. It may not be as “Star Wars” as it sounds but it is quite interesting.
Jen has been with the Library of Congress, and the Packard Campus for Audiovisual Conservation, for over 13 years. She began as a Library Technician but for the past three years or so she has had the title of Robotics Transfer Operator.
It is her job to see to the digitization of videotapes i.e. the transfer of videotape from a physical source into a digital file.
But, first, some background….