Here at Yahoo! there are a bunch of us librarian-types. In my department alone, besides me, there’s another guy who has an MLIS, a woman who is currently getting hers, and several people who have worked at various ontology and cataloging type jobs. And that’s just my department. Librarians have been working here since the beginning (think: Yahoo! Directory).

Lately Google and Ask have begun marketing to the librarian community. Google started their librarian’s newsletter and Ask hired Gary Price.

Both of these moves reaffirm that search engines are just the latest iteration of the library and information sciences field.