There’s currently a lot of discussion about techie women in librarianship (which now has far too long a string of episodes for me to sort out and link here, but somebody should collect them all together in some appropriate spot: Lazyweb?). Kudos to Karen Schneider for her recent post on LGBT librarians. I’ve felt some kinship in the discussion of women in technology librarianship, but I didn’t really feel I had enough library experience to talk about it coherently. Karen’s done a good job pointing out the similarities and differences in relating to the techie library world being LGBT vs. being a woman or of color (namely, it’s pretty obvious that someone is a woman, but LGBT-ness isn’t very visible). She doesn’t really have any answers, and I don’t either, but her observations are good.