Cataloging Electronic Databases?

[Alejandro Garza Gonzalez]

I'd like to know if any other library has taken it upon themselves to 
catalog their e-databases in a way that the user can search for them by 
subject, title, keyword, etc.

We have done this by full-text indexing the title, description and 
keywords (which the people who work closely with users using them have 
provided) in order to search for these from our web pages. Additionally 
to being able to type in queries to arrive at the specified database by 
issuing keywords, we have listings by keyword, by title and by area of 
knowledge.

Although we still have some problems with this system (some patrons get the
idea that our query form to arrive at a certain Database is actually a way to
get at the information in them...) we have found out it works in most 
cases. 

Could a Database be LC- or Dewey-classified? If so, would you have them 
show up among books in your OPAC? If not, why?

_ alejandro garza _________________ __ _ _  _    _
  ITESM Centro de Informacion-Biblioteca Monterrey
  agarza at campus.mty.itesm.mx
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