Series 13. Digital Files--Interviews, ca. 2008-2009, undated

This series includes a portable recorder and WMA audio files of interviews conducted by Jonathan Coleman as part of his research for West by West. Paper copy transcripts of many of the interviews can be found in Series 14, Transcripts of Interviews; a Reading Guide (in box 38, folder 1) correlates the alphanumeric codes assigned to the paper copies to the corresponding interviewee names, as well as the titles of corresponding audio files. According to Coleman, the audio recordings of the interviews should be the final authority in terms of accuracy, rather than the transcripts. Corrections in the printed transcripts were made as time allowed, but eight transcribers in all were involved in the project.