Elsevier scandal for 24/6/09 and other links of interest

Not content with publishing fake journals, Elsevier's marketing division recently decided to "offer $25 Amazon gift cards to anyone who would give a new textbook five stars in a review posted on Amazon or Barnes and Noble." Upon exposure, it's now recanted the scheme.

More New Zealand libraries on the social web:

• Lincoln Uni Library on Twitter;
• Otago Uni Library on Twitter and showing their Law Library refurbishments on Flickr;
Christchurch City Library staff on Flickr (with photos of Paul Sutherland's 50th birthday party).

Photos of libraries to drool over:

• Republic Polytechnic Library, Singapore -- lots of space; and
• Hjorring public library, Denmark -- a red ribbon theme flows through the whole building; lots of bright colours and cool spaces; self-checkin.

A report from Cambridge University about what students are interested in doing on mobile phones: primarily opening hours, location maps, contact info, and access to the library catalogue.

A hilarious and very true rant on attending vendor training sessions; and a more serious post in response on how this applies to the kind of training sessions we give students.

National Library of the Netherlands is to secure long-term preservation of the content of the Directory of Open Access Journals.