Batgirl? Yes, Batgirl is a librarian. Actually, she is probably the best known comic book librarian to date (even if it was in the campy Batman television series wherein She was given the PhD in Library Science). After a brutal attack by the villainous Joker, Barbara Gordon was left crippled, but that didn't stop her heroic nature. Being a master at computers she turned to a support role: fighting crime as Oracle, by tracking and disrupting the perpetrator's methods and infrastructure and passing the information along to those who could take a more direct role. While Batgirl may seem like a poster child for librarianship (see poster top left), Few seem to stop and reflect if Dr. Gordon the librarian was merely the secrete identity and cover for Batgirl, her true self. And it was not by choice, but through tragic circumstances that, undoubtedly, she would do anything to have undone, that Gordon embraces her role as librarian. Notice that the promotion picture is of the Batgirl persona and not Oracle. But was Batgirl really a librarian or is the crippled, wheel-chaired bound, bespectacled Oracle the librarian? Where is that poster?
