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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.
Read more: Agri forum in DOST’s science week reveals decrease of cocolisap hotspots
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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.
Read more: Librarians become more engaged with STARBOOKS – DOST official
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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.