Computer tablets donated to National Library

Chief Executive Officer of Southern Systems Karl Moore (tenth, left) hands over the donation in the presence of library staff and Thompson’s family.

The Gillian Thompson Collection in the National Library was yesterday boosted with a donation of 16 computer tablets with some 500 books loaded on each one.

Chief Executive Officer of Southern Systems Karl Moore handed over the 16 computer tablets to the Young Adult Section of the library during a simple ceremony. That section of the library was recently renamed ‘the Gillian Thompson Collection’ in memory of the late Chief Librarian, who died on Christmas Eve last year following an accident.

Moore, who worked for nine years with Fox News, before launching his own Information Technology (IT) Company, told the