Looking for ideas

Hi everyone–

So I’m going to set up a wordpress to act as a cms for a single-topic driven website. I will need to have a searchable database of references/bibliographies as well as a searchable list of posts

These two are obviously different– the posts are in post format while the biblio list resource is pretty straightforward (names, dates, authors, year of pub etc. and a link to this if possible or atleast a link to the worldcat listing of the book) —

Should I just treat these biblio entries as posts and give them their own category? or is there a plugin that would allow something like this?

Any ideas are greatly appreciated and I apologize if this is confusing as hell.

Thanks in advance