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According to Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Asst. Secretary Raymund E. Liboro, librarians will no longer be the typical detached person inside the library with STARBOOKS around.

Instead, more students and library users will approach and rely on them for information they need from a technology such as STARBOOKS, or Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosk Station, the first science digital library in the Philippines.

Liboro made this statement during the STARBOOKS Convention, one of the activities in the recent 2015 National Science and Technology Week at SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.

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From the previous number of 57 cocolisap hotspot areas, only seven remain in the Philippines as of December 2014.

“Our latest report is that, in fact, there are no more hotspots in CALABARZON and the remaining problem is only in Basilan,” stated Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) Administrator Romulo N. Arancon Jr. during the recent Agri-Aqua Forum by the Department of Science and Technology‘s Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCAARRD).

The forum was one of the activities during DOST’s 2015 National Science and Technology Week from July 24-28, 2015 at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.   
Cocolisap, or coconut scale insect (CSI), possesses specialized mouthparts for sucking the sap directly from the tree’s vascular system. This causes yellowing, wilting, premature nutfall, and eventually, low coconut yield.

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The Commission on Audit (COA) has lauded the Department of Science and Technology’s STARBOOKS or Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosk Station, the first digital science library in the Philippines which can run without Internet connection.

In its final report of 2014, the COA indicated that STARBOOKS is one innovation that merits praise because it provides opportunities to deprived but deserving students in the countryside and gives them access to information on S&T for free.

“Looking at this program, bringing this library to far-flung areas is very noble as far as COA is concerned,” stated Karlo Almonidovar, Commission on Audit supervising auditor assigned at the DOST.  “The social impact of STARBOOKS is very important because this addresses one of the strategic objectives of the government which is poverty alleviation through education, and we approve of it, that’s why COA is called ‘partner in development.’”  

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Robots such as these were the main attractions in the Robotics and Science Interactive Exhibit organized by the Department of Science and Technology’s Philippine Science High School System (DOST-PSHS) during DOST’s National Science and Technology Week held last July 24-28 at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.  Students from different PSHS campuses all over the country showed off their own robotic creations like this pair of bots and performed interesting science experiments for the audience, consisting mostly of kids.  (S&T Media Service)