This study analyzed Japanese language and social studies in the curricula adopted in Okinawa between 1954 and 1960. This was termed the “Standard Curriculum,” and it reflected a consideration of how programs using related materials were positioned in the curriculum. The plan to promote reading and the use of libraries was incorporated into the curriculum as a tentative plan for the subject of Japanese language, while problem-solving using a variety of reference materials, including encyclopedias, statistics, newspapers, and maps was established as a tentative plan for social studies. Although the “Standard Curriculum” was developed based on the Courses of Study issued by the Ministry of Education, learning credits under problem-solving and the use of reference materials were still included and the use of libraries for the purpose of voluntary learning was clearly specified when revisions were made to the social studies curriculum in 1957. This indicates that Okinawa took a path that differed from the 1955 revised Course of Study for social studies in Japan. While the school library law was not yet in place, the purchase of library books was recorded as “capital” in the 1955 school education expenditures. Contrastingly, the Ryukyuan-American Cultural Center was always categorized as “Other” in the “Libraries” list within the guidelines specified by the Ministry of Education in 1957, indicating that the libraries’ educational curricula were structurally entangled with the occupation cultural policy. It was also confirmed during the course of this research that the subjects adopted in the “Standard Curriculum” still exist today.

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how classificatory principles were applied to the British Technology Index (BTI) which was launched in 1962. BTI had a sound theoretical basis for indexing. The theory was set out in E.J. Coates’ book on subject catalogues published in 1960, and he became the first editor of BTI. While the book was written under the influence of Ranganathan’s theory of classification, Coates put forth a new approach to alphabetical subject cataloguing. The new approach comprised a set of syntactic rules based on Ranganathan’s facet analysis as further illuminated by Farradane’s relational analysis. A feature of BTI was the block structure of related subjects under each main subject heading, which was realized by creating logically articulated subject headings and by a chain procedure for generating inversion cross-references from these subject headings. It is demonstrated that there was a close correlation between the whole indexing procedure of BTI and faceted classification. Concludes that the essence of BTI indexing system was relational analysis in the context of classification.