Developing Educational Software for a Library Classification Training System

The purpose of this study is the development of educational software for a library classification training system in the LIS program. This system provides LIS students with support in practicing how to construct class numbers for books. They can use more book information than available through tradition instruction methods, such as the book contents or summaries obtained through network resources like the National Diet Library (NDL) Database. The student can immediately see the assessment of whether their answer was correct or incorrect on the display, and obtain instructional comments based on the pattern of their error. In this paper, we describe the exercise of constructing a class number by combining a class number for a book subject with an entry from NDC auxiliary tables.