H. Vernon Leighton
Coordinator of Liaison Services
and Government Documents Librarian
Main Library Winona State University
Winona, MN 55987
(507) 457-5148 vleighton@winona.edu
H. Vernon LeightonCoordinator of Liaison Services
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Autodocs
Autodocs FAQ and User's Guide
Autodocs Download, click here to get to the Autodocs electronic check-in and shelflist program. Version 1.4 is available as of 11/15/2002
Superseded List (2002) for both new Autodocs users and current users who want to upgrade.
SuperC, click here to get to the SuperC database. for superseded depository items.
Retrospective shipping lists from 2000 to 2003
Retroship, click here to download the retroship.zip file of retrospective shipping lists. William Mathis at Dana College, Blair Nebraska, has merged shipping lists from previous years into large dbase format files. Vernon placed them in separate files by item format so that they can be imported into Autodocs easily. (ex. the file containing all year 2001 microfiche lists is called 2000M.)
Leighton, H. Vernon. "Developing a new Data Archive in a Time of Maturing Standards." IASSIST Quarterly 26 (Spring, 2002): 5-9.
A paper presented at the IASSIST Conference in Storrs, CT, in 2001. I had spent my sabbatical as the programmer for the Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive at Princeton University. This paper describes some of the strategies used to minimize labor efforts when developing a new data archive. Some data archive software products are reviewed and critiqued. Basic scheme is to use a data entry friendly format to edit the codebook, then use PERL scripts to construct a DDI compliant codebook in XML. That XML codebook is then used by other scripts to generate a suite of data products, some using XSLT, for use in the archive. The project was managed by Elizabeth Bennett under the direction of Ann Gray. The subject expert was Larry McGill. The hard work was done by Winona Meltzer and Colleen Burlingham. From the programmming end, the CPANDA project was carried to completion by the very capable Andrew Dzhigo in 2003. Visit CPANDA
Leighton, H. Vernon and Jaideep Srivastava. "First 20 Precision among World Wide Web Search Services (Search Engines)." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50 (July 19, 1999): 870-881.
A rewrite of our 1997 paper that studied precision among Web search services (see below). Although the data is the same, some of the findings and interpretations have changed. Significant revision from the web version below, including a rethinking of the concept of relevance.
____. Precision among World Wide Web Search Services (Search Engines): Alta Vista, Excite, Hotbot, Infoseek, Lycos. Last updated 8/27/97.
Five search engines, Alta Vista, Excite, Hotbot, Infoseek, and Lycos, are compared for precision on the first twenty results returned for fifteen queries. All searching was done from January 31 to March 12, 1997. Steps have been taken to ensure that bias has not unduly influence the evaluation. Friedmann's randomized block design is used to perform multiple comparisons for significance. Analysis shows that Alta Vista, Excite and Infoseek are the top three services, with their relative rank changing depending on how one interpreted the concept of "relevant."
Leighton, H. Vernon. "On the future of the book and libraries." Electronic Message posted to the Government Documents Discussion List. Govdoc-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU. 1 April 1996.
This is no April Fool's Joke. Let me know what you think.____. Performance of World Wide Web (WWW) Index Services, June 1995
Final Project for a course in Computer Systems Performance Analysis. This study has been so well received that I added a forward with more of my data and have added the Kirsch letter and my reply directly to the html version of the document.
____."Course Analysis: Techniques and Guidelines," Journal of Academic Librarianship 21(May 1995): 175-179.
An update to the theory of course analysis. Presents the various techniques for gathering course information and the formats for creating course descriptions. And the appropriate situations for their use.____. "Electronic Availability Lists for U.S. Federal Document Depository Libraries: Opportunities and Realities," Government Publications Review 19 (May/June 1992): 279-287.
In this paper, I explored the possibilities of creating needs and offers lists in electronic formats. The conclusion was that the logical electronic format was as an ascii text, and not as a structured and indexed database.